Lynn mom arrested for link to murder

LYNN – Originally labeled a kidnapping victim, Louna Eveillard, 26, of Lynn was arrested Friday on a street corner in Brooklyn, N.Y. and charged with accessory after the fact of murder in the death of 33-year-old Greenland Etienne.If Eveillard chooses to waive extradition, she would most likely be returned for arraignment in Lynn District Court sometime next week.Authorities say Eveillard repeatedly lied to investigators and even denied being cut twice on her hand in an attempt to try and help her boyfriend and accused murderer Rodlyn Petitbois avoid capture Wednesday after she and her four small children were found in New York City.The four children are reportedly staying with relatives in Brooklyn.When word got out that Petitbois was being transported back from New York to Lynn, a media frenzy erupted outside the Lynn Police station in an attempt to catch a glimpse of him.However, by 11 p.m., there still was no sign of Petitbois.A warrant for Eveillard’s arrest was issued early Friday by Lynn police stating that Eveillard, “knowing that Rodlyn Petitbois had committed a felony, to wit, murder, did harbor, conceal or assist such person with the intent that such person should avoid or escape detention, arrest?”The version of events Ms. Eveillard gave investigators clearly contradicted the facts of what happened. There is probable cause to believe that Louna Eveillard assisted Mr. Petitbois after he stabbed Greenland Etienne to death.”Petitbois is scheduled to be arraigned in Lynn District Court Monday for the murder of Greenland Etienne. Two witnesses told police that a drunken and drugged Petitbois, after hours of arguing with Eveillard in Etienne’s Highlands apartment, stabbed Eveillard in the left hand, then stabbed Etienne through one of her eye sockets as she tried to call police.Police interviews with Petitbois and Eveillard Wednesday and Thursday differ from accounts provided by witnesses.Petitbois told New York police in an interview Wednesday that he and another person in the apartment grabbed knives and began to fight. Eveillard “got in between the two of them” and was cut, then, Petitbois told police, Etienne “tried to get in between them as he was swinging his knife.””He said she staggered back and fell down. He said he dropped his knife and went to see if she was injured badly. She was not speaking but making noise.”Eveillard told Lynn and New York police during an interview at a Brooklyn precinct Thursday that “at some point an argument between Rodlyn and Greenland and herself ensued. Greenland grabbed a serrated bread knife during the argument. She (Eveillard) said that she tried to take the knife away from Greenland and cut her hand.”Police challenged this claim during the interview and pointed out Eveillard had two cuts on her hand. They also challenged her claim that she left 99 High Rock at 10 p.m. Tuesday and went to her 15 Whittier St. apartment where she said Petitbois arrived and watched a movie.”She said at 6 a.m., she, her children and Mr. Petitbois decided it would be a good time to travel to Brooklyn.”Police told her she was lying about the time sequence and said Lynn police searched 15 Whittier following Etienne’s murder shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday.While being questioned by police Eveillard also denied ever having problems with Mr. Petitbois and denied a claim, relayed by witnesses to police, that Petitbois assaulted her three weeks ago.She told police she and Petitbois had been together for seven years and that they moved to Lynn last year.Mary Gianakis, director of Massachusetts organization Voices Against Violence, said it’s not unusual for victims of domestic violence to act in contradictory ways because they may not be trying to protect their assailants, but rather themselves.”The message is very clear to her: To do anything other than appear to support him would result in escalated violence against her,” she said.