NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans man averted a scheduled murder trial by pleading guilty to shooting 32-year-old Muhiyidin Moye, a social justice activist, on Treme Street in February 2018. Moye, a Black Lives Matter activist from Charleston, SC, was also known as Muhiyidin d'Baha.
Roosevelt Iglus, 27, plead guilty to manslaughter and and guilty as charged to counts of obstruction of justice and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Under terms of the plea agreement approved by the victim's sister, Iglus is expected to be sentenced July 23 to 17 years in prison by Criminal District Judge Darryl Derbigny.
According to New Orleans police, d'Baha was riding a bicycle in the 1900 block of Bienville Street around 1:25 a.m. on Feb. 6, 2018. Surveillance video showed d'Baha being approached by a man, later identified as Iglus, who tried to knock him off his bike and fired at him as he rode away.
The victim was struck in the thigh and incurred massive blood loss. He was transported in critical condition to a hospital, where he died about six hours after being shot.
The Charleston man gained national attention one year before his death in a widely circulated video that showed d'Baha in February 2017 leaping to wrestle a Confederate battle flag from a man during a protest over Civil War monuments in South Carolina.
