Suspect in Waveland killing faces murder charge two years later

It’s been two years of waiting for the family of Waveland murder victim Jeremy Fountain, whose remains were found in Hancock County’s Shoreline Park community on June 12, 2016.

Drew Daniel “Creep” Bourgeois had been arrested on a first-degree murder warrant from Waveland in Metairie, La., weeks later. He is suspected of killing Fountain in Waveland.

Bourgeois was extradited to the Hancock County jail July 13 after facing drug and firearm charges in Jefferson Parish.

The waiting begins anew.

Bourgeois, 30, received a $1 million bond Thursday on the murder charge and was turned over Friday to the Louisiana Department of Corrections, Waveland Police Chief David Allen said.

Judge P.J. Mauffray has ordered the case turned over to a Hancock County grand jury.

Bourgeois will be serving his time on convictions in Louisiana while his murder charge goes before the grand jury.

“If he is indicted, he will be brought back here to face the murder charge,” Allen said.

Fountain, of Bay St. Louis, had been missing several days when his family found a portion of his remains in a secluded area on Chesapeake Street.

Police have said they have linked his death to the July 6, 2016, killing of Matthew Spooner.

Fountain and Spooner knew each other and reportedly knew Bourgeois. They were both 35 and were each fatally shot in the head, coroners have said.

Spooner was shot in a home in New Orleans.

Spooner’s friends have said he had been a member of the Simon City Royals street gang, but he had wanted to start a family-oriented gang, Sip City Royals, with some of his SCR friends.

Bourgeois, a felon, was found in July 2016 while Jefferson Parish deputies were looking for him on the murder warrant from Waveland. Deputies said he had a firearm and enough meth for a distribution charge, both of which have led to convictions.

He was 17 when he was arrested in an armed robbery in Marion County, Fla., in 2006. He was later convicted.

At the time of Fountain’s killing, Bourgeois was on probation on two convictions in Mississippi. He had been making meth in Hancock County and had precursors used to make meth, records show.

Bourgeois had a year left on probation but absconded, the state prison website shows.

He also is held for the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

Robin Fitzgerald, 228-896-2307, @robincrimenews

This story was originally published July 20, 2018 at 6:48 PM.