Byron Jones was booked with second-degree murder for allegedly shooting Santinac, who was in his early 20s

Byron Jones was booked with second-degree murder for allegedly shooting Santinac, who was in his early 20s, about 11:15 a.m. in the 1600 block of Music Street.
Santinac's body was found riddled with bullets inside a four-door silver Isuzu Rodeo near the intersection of Music and North Derbigny streets. Before dawn Saturday, members of the New Orleans Police Department's Tactical unit and the Homicide Division executed a search warrant at 7616 Ligustrum Drive and arrested Jones without incident, authorities said. Jones also was booked with possession of marijuana and possession of a gun while in possession of illegal drugs. The Sept. 6 homicide had been the first since Aug. 30, a day before New Orleans officials ordered residents to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Gustav, an Orleans Parish coroner's investigator said. Santinac, a cook who lived on Music Street, had been shot multiple times and died at the scene. The Isuzu he was found dead in was pressed against the front steps of a peach-colored shotgun double on Music Street. The tire on the driver's side was flat and the bumper was damaged, and the car had apparently knocked down a handrail on the home's front steps.

The Isuzu Rodeo's passenger-side door had three bullet holes in it, and its half-lowered passenger window appeared to have been cracked by a gunshot.