FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Folsom Man Sentenced to 30 Years at Hard Labor for Attempted First-Degree Murder of His Mother and Father
February 17, 2022
COVINGTON—District Attorney Warren Montgomery reports that today, Rudy Emanuel Melerine, 38 of Folsom, Louisiana, was sentenced by District Judge John Keller to 30 years at hard labor, without benefit of probation, parole, and suspension of sentence for the two counts of attempted first-degree murder of his parents.
Melerine was adjudicated as a habitual offender. The 30-year sentence is on count 2 involving his father and the 25 years without benefits is on count 1 involving his mother.
The attack on his mother and father took place on June 20, 2017 in the early morning hours. St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a residence and found the defendant’s mother in the driveway with obvious injuries to her head and face and was bleeding.
The second victim, the defendant’s father, was laying on the floor in a pool of his own blood, with Melerine crouching over his body. The victim was face down trying to prevent Melerine from grabbing the hammer that he’d wrestled out of his son’s hands. Officers observed blood across the room on the floor, bed and walls and covering the victim and the defendant. Deputy Parker later testified that it was the “bloodiest scene he’d ever seen.”
Assistant District Attorney’s Blake Peters and Luke Lancaster prosecuted the case.