Joshua Moore was 28 and living with his longtime girlfriend, 26-year-old Colamecia McQuirter, in an apartment on the 1700 block of North Harco Drive in the Belaire community of Baton Rouge. On the morning of Tuesday, July 10, 2012, Moore’s mother, Joyce, who lived across the way and was used to the couple visiting her each morning, went to check on them when they failed to appear for work. She looked through a window, climbed in, and found both young parents shot to death on the apartment floor.

Detectives arrived shortly before 8:30 a.m. and believed the killings occurred overnight. Police found no signs of forced entry, and investigators, including Detective Belford Johnson, came to suspect the shooter was someone the couple had let inside. A witness called while police were at the scene and gave information that investigators said pointed in a direction but was not sufficient to make an arrest. As of a June 2016 report, the double homicide remained unsolved and the children were being raised without their parents.

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