4 Teens Accused of Dragging Woman to Death Plead Not Guilty

A collection of flowers and a cross with a halo at the location where the body of Linda Frickey was recovered after she was carjacked and dragged to her death a day earlier on N. Pierce Street in New Orleans, on March 22, 2022. Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP

NEW ORLEANS—Four teens charged with murder in the dragging death of an elderly New Orleans woman whose arm was severed during a carjacking pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

Shackled and clad in red jumpsuits, the 17-year-old boy, 16-year-old girl, and two 15-year-old girls entered the pleas to a charge of second-degree murder in the March 21 death of 73-year-old Linda Frickey, news outlets reported.