Baton Rouge News | Baton Rouge Loop - Shocker of the Week: Sanchez Brumfield Guilty in Olive Garden Slaying

This week, Sanchez Brumfield was found guilty of 1st degree murder in the shooting death of Aaron Arnold back in 2006 outside of the Olive Garden restaurant on Siegen Lane. While Brumfield wasn't the actual gunman in the incident, he reportedly gave the 'shoot them' command to the alleged shooter, Tracy Young.

Dionne Grayson and Aaron Arnold were putting gas in Grayson's car behind the restaurant when they were approached and shot. Grayson survived the shooting but Arnold was not so lucky. He was, however, lucky enough that Grayson got a good enough look at the two pieces of garbage responsible for this incident and that she survived to point them out to the jury at Brumfield's trial. Grayson deserves a medal of honor for her courage in testifying against Brumfield, in my opinion. A lot of people would be in fear of retaliation by thug friends and family for testifying, but that apparently didn't stop Grayson in this case. She's definitely a citizen that Baton Rouge and the Arnold family should be proud of.

The jury in Brumfield's case will now have to decide if he gets the death penalty or life in prison (both on our dime of course). I'm not going to make this article into a death penalty discussion, but i'd like to see them make the decision that costs the taxpayers the least in this case. Tracy Young will have his trial in the future, although I don't believe a date has been set. I can't understand why they didn't try them together, but i've not really looked into the case. It just seems like the jury would have been able to make a decision on both counts after hearing the same testimony from the witness. There's no doubt in my mind that Young will meet the same fate that Brumfield has met. At least for the Arnold and Taylor families, some good that will come out of all of this. For the parents of these 2 low life punks, perhaps if you had raised your kids to do something other than steal and kill, you wouldn't be sobbing over losing your sons now. At least you get to say goodbye to your sons though, unlike the Arnold family.

It's nice to see the justice system working somewhat. It may be 15 years of feeding and housing these 2 killers before TRUE justice is done, but at least they won't be roaming around with no jobs, killing more innocent citizens. So for now, 2 down, probably about 10,000 more killers to go.