UPDATE- Arrest Made in 2024 Kentwood Homicide
KENTWOOD (November 3, 2026)- The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office (TPSO) has made an arrest in a 2024 Kentwood-area murder.
Jerroy Brumfield, 37, has been booked into the Tangipahoa Parish Jail on one count of 1st Degree Murder.
Back on the morning of July 27, 2024, a caller reported seeing a man slumped over in a vehicle sitting idle in the middle of Brab Alford Lane near State Line Road. First responders arrived to find Edward Robertson, 43, of Magnolia, MS, shot dead in the vehicle.
The TPSO Criminal Investigations Division determined Brumfield was the suspect in the case and issued a warrant for his arrest in December 2025.
Brumfield was taken into custody by the Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office when they located him at the recent Washington Parish Free Fair. He was later transferred to the Tangipahoa Parish Jail.
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