AFEIDAVIT STATE OF LOUISIANA. PARISH OF IBERVILLE BEFORE ME, the undersigned Notary Public, duly commissioned and qualified in and for the parish and state aforesaid, personally came and appeared: JERRY WAYNE PRICE hereinafter referred to as “Appearer” who, after begin first duly sworn, did depose and say that: 1 Appearer is the cousin of Barron Victor, Jr. (“Victor”) who was shot and killed at Club Mercedes on February 21, 2000. Appearer was present at Club Mercedes at the time of the shooting. 2. Club Mercedes was a small nightclub and was crowded with approximately 150-200 patrons at the time of the shooting. / At the time of the shooting the lights were low inside Club Mercedes and the room was full of cigarette smoke, both of which limited visibility in the room. 4. Prior to the shooting, Appearer was socializing with Victor and with Nathaniel Tillison (“Tillison”), who is also a cousin of both Victor and Appearer. 5. Appearer witnessed at least two separate fights which occurred inside Club Mercedes prior to the shooting. 6. During the last fight, Appearer witnessed Victor intervene and attempt to come to the assistance of an individual named Desmond who had been the instigator of each fight. 7. While the last fight was taking place, Appearer did not see McKinley Phipps, Jr. (“Phipps”) or Tillison anywhere near the location of the fighting. 8. During the second fight, gunshots rang out and the crowd, including Appearer, rushed to the doors to exit the nightclub. Again, Appearer was inside the club when the shooting occurred and even he couldn't see the shooter. Page 1 of 39. Appearer did not know who, if anyone, had been shot or who had fired the shots. 10. As Appearer exited the nightclub with the crowd, he saw Tillison, who had been outside in the parking lot at the time of the shooting, attempting to enter the nightclub while yelling “What happened to my cousin?”. Tillison had not been inside Club Mercedes at the time of the shooting. 11, Appearer continued on to the parking lot and and subsequently went home. After arriving home, Appearer learned that it was his cousin, Victor, who had been shot and killed at Club Mercedes. 12, The next day, Tillison and the victim’s mother called Appearer. Appearer believes that detectives were also secretly on the line. Tillison suggested that Appearer could identify Phipps as the person who shot Victor. Appearer told Tillison and the vietim’s mother that, even though the victim was his cousin, he would not implicate Phipps because he did not see the shooter. 13. Immediately after that conversation ended, detectives telephoned Appearer and pressured him to identify Phipps as the shooter. 14. Again, Appearer stated that he did not see the shooter and neither did Tillison, and he would not lie to accommodate law enforcement. Appearer consistently expressed this position to investigators, Tillison, Tillison’s sisters and Victor’s mother. 15. After Appearer stated that he did not see who shot Victor, detectives teat eg he arrest him for violating the conditions of eababe being in a nightclub unless identified Phipps as the shooter. vIbanTN 16. Tillison told Appearer that Lamont Moore (the boyfriend of Appearer’s sister at the time) said that Appearer saw the shooting and could identify Phipps as the shooter. Victor's family believed that Phipps was the shooter based solely on that statement by Lamont Moore. Tillison told Appearer that he (Tillison) needed Appearer to “stick with him on this” and say that Phipps was the shooter, Again, Appearer told Tillison that he did not see the shooting and would not falsely identify Phipps as the shooter. 17. In the days that followed, while working at Piccadilly Cafeteria, Appearer was called into the office of his manager, Maurice, whereupon detegtives fyom, the sf Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office, accompanied by Appearer’s officer Kevin Hidalgo, arrested him for Obstruction of Justice relating to First Degree Murder. 18. Following his arrest and booking, the same detectives tried to force Appearer to sign a pre-typed affidavit implicating Phipps in the murder of Victor. Appearer refused to sign the affidavit, 19. Days later, the same detectives returned to the jail and directed Appearer to write out an affidavit implicating Phipps in the shooting. Again, Appearer refused to lie. Page 2 of 320. To the best of Appearer’s recollection, the detectives returned to the jail more than five times over the next two months that he was housed in the St. Tammany Parish Jail, each time badgering Appearer to implicate Phipps. 21. Eventually, Appearer was transferred to Avoyelles Parish Detention Center in yyy Marksville, Louisiana to serve the remainder of his sentence as a result of his violation, but was transported back to the St. Tammany Parish Jail on two additional occasions by the detectives who continued to pressure him to implicate Phipps. An assistant district attorney from St. Tammany Parish was also present during e, Anal interrogationg. Appearer advised the investigators and the assistant district attorney th: he did not see Phipps shoot Victor and neither did Tillison and that he would so testify i called as a witness against Phipps. 22. Following that final meeting with detectives and the assistant district attorney. the charge of Obstruction of Justice relating to First Degree Murder was refused by the St. ‘Tammany Parish District Attorney on July 6, 2000, and Appearer was not transported to St. Tammany Parish again, 23. Over the past six (6) months, no Assistant District Attomey, Investigator or other representative of the office of District Attorney Warren Montgomery has visited or contacted Appearer concerning the facts set forth in this Affidavit. JERRY WAYNE PRICE SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED before me this (3 day of March, 2016, at St. Gabriel, Louisiana. NOTARY PUBLIC WV Page 3 of 3