On the late evening of Thursday, August 31, 2017, 64-year-old Jesse Chase was found lying in the road on the 2000 block of Plank Road in Baton Rouge with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and died the next day. The shooting was one of two incidents in the city within an hour, which prompted a police investigation.

In January 2018 authorities arrested 24-year-old Kasey Gray and re-booked him on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with Chase’s death. Gray had been jailed earlier, after an arrest shortly before Christmas 2017 for the attempted murder of his aunt, who was shot in the side of the head at a home on Madison Avenue. The motive in Chase’s killing was not released.

If anyone has information about what happened on Plank Road that night, please share it with investigators.