Jeremy Oneal pleads guilty to numerous crimes

A Shreveport man facing trial on numerous counts in Caddo District Court pleaded guilty Tuesday, December 16, 2025, rather than risk enhanced sentencing when his criminal history would be exposed during the legal process.  

Jeremy Shaquille Oneal, 34, facing charges of felony aggravated flight from officers and simple criminal property damage in District Judge Ramona Emanuel's court, was to face a jury of seven women and five men. The case, in docket No. 398664, concerned events of November 11, 2023, when Shreveport police attempted to pull him over for failure to use a turn signal on Jewella Avenue at West 70th Street. After officers activated their lights and sirens Oneal led police on a pursuit with speeds in excess of 25 mph over the posted speed limit, driving west in the eastbound lanes, leaving the roadway and subsequently wrecking his vehicle on Gaywood Lane.

After the jury was sworn and testimony had begun, Oneal chose to plead guilty as charged to all the cases he had pending in Caddo District Court. Besides the immediate charges, he also pleaded guilty as charged to domestic abuse battery (third offense); domestic abuse child endangerment, violation of a protective order with battery of a protected person; and domestic abuse battery with a dangerous weapon. He also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor resisting a police officer. 

For the immediate charges, he faces up to five years in prison at hard labor for aggravated flight from officers and up to two years at hard labor for criminal property damage. For domestic abuse battery third offense he faces up to five years at hard labor; for domestic abuse child endangerment he faces up to three years at hard labor; for violation of a protective order with battery of a protected person he faces up to two years at hard labor; and for domestic abuse battery with a dangerous weapon he could be sentenced to up to 10 years at hard labor.

He will return to Judge Emanuel’s courtroom for sentencing February 19, 2026.

Assistant District Attorneys Fernando Grider Jr. and Senae D. Hall prosecuted Oneal. Defense attorneys were Royal Alexander and Silver Sanders.

Numerous docket numbers were involved in the cases.