FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 18, 2018

COVINGTON—District Attorney Warren Montgomery announces that a St. Tammany Parish grand jury indicted two men—Oren Bowens, 39, of Slidell, and Warren Brown, 26, of Pearl River—with second degree murder Thursday (May 17) in the case of a 23-year-old woman who died after ingesting heroin.

Bowens is also charged with possession of Suboxone and possession with the intent to distribute heroin.

The men are accused of supplying and/or providing the heroin that caused the victim’s death on Oct. 16, 2017. Her cause of death was determined to be heroin toxicity.