By JIM BUTLER

Julius Layfield’s legal issues date to at least 2006, none as consequential as the current one.

Layfield, 45, of Alexandria is accused of running over and killing a teenager, critically injuring another and fleeing into the night.

He was arrested Wednesday and charged with three felony counts in the death of Collin Lacaze and the injuring of Addy Francis, both 16.

Mayfield remained in lockup Thursday under $300,000 bond, a much-discussed amount on social media with the “too lows” clearly the predominant opinion.

Authorities have not yet said why the youths were standing on the side of Eddie Williams Avenue, a relatively short distance from Layfield’s residence on Richland Road, or whether others were at the scene near Tulane Avenue.

Eddie Williams is a relatively straight road paralleling the east side of I49 from Broadway to beyond Sugarhouse Road.  

Readily available records show Layfield, a Pollock resident at the time, was charged in Terrebonne Parish with felony possession of a Schedule IV Controlled Dangerous Substance in July 2006.

Disposition of that case is not readily available online, a normal operating procedure in clerks of court offices.

Rapides deputies booked Layfield, then of Alexandria, on a trespassing charge in 2014.

In 2017, then living in Pollock,  he was arrested by Grant deputies and charged with possession of crystal meth, probation violation and an outstanding warrant in Rapides.

The parole charge indicates a Department of Corrections sentence at some point.

 Rapides arrested him on a contempt count in May 2021. Layfield was held under $100,000 bond and subsequently arrested on a parole violation charge and released to DOC.