Willie Robinson Jr., 56, was shot and killed in Rayne, Louisiana on the night of September 6, 2022. Police were called shortly before 11:00 p.m. to the intersection of Bailey and West C Street, where officers found Robinson’s body. He lived in nearby Kaplan.

Investigators identified 43-year-old Hulon Williams III as the person believed to have fired the fatal shots. Williams was located and arrested on Reynolds Street at about 1:29 a.m. the next morning, September 7, 2022, and was booked into the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office Jail on a second-degree murder charge. Motive and the circumstances that led to the shooting remain under investigation.

If anyone has information about Robinson’s movements that night or witnessed activity near Bailey and West C Street, please share what is known with the Rayne Police Department.