On December 1, 2022, two young women were found shot to death inside a red Chevrolet Cruze parked in the driveway of an apartment complex on Ina Claire Drive in Opelousas, Louisiana. Twenty-one-year-old Samijah Leday and 19-year-old Alexie Joubert had both sustained multiple gunshot wounds; the car was struck more than 50 times and numerous shell casings from a .223/5.56mm rifle were found at the scene.

The Opelousas Police Department and the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office opened a joint homicide investigation, executing search warrants and examining electronic devices as they sought to reconstruct the attack. Authorities have identified two suspects. Thirty-year-old Casey Rubin was taken into custody and later released while the St. Landry Parish District Attorney’s Office continues to review the evidence. The second identified suspect, 18-year-old Sadavion George, is currently jailed on a separate second-degree murder charge.

Anyone with information about the killings of Samijah Leday or Alexie Joubert is asked to come forward.