Hushiar Faris Sumo, 46, was driving near the casino corridor in Lake Charles when his vehicle left the roadway, cut into a wooded area, and struck a tree. Responding officers found that Sumo had been shot; he was the only occupant. He was transported by Acadian Ambulance to a local hospital but died of his gunshot wound at 4:10 a.m.

Investigators determined Sumo had been at a local casino earlier and left with another man in Sumo’s car. Surveillance video and witness statements placed a suspect in the area immediately after the crash, and detectives said that suspect then fled toward the Humble, Texas, area. On September 27, 2022, an arrest warrant was obtained for Eskinder Seyifu Mekuria of Humble charging him with second degree murder. On October 13, 2022, Lake Charles detectives and SWAT, working with Houston authorities, located and arrested Mekuria in the 6500 block of Westheimer Road; he was booked into the Harris County processing center and held for extradition.

Are there readers who were in the casino corridor that night or who recognize the sequence of surveillance images and witness accounts?