On the morning of July 14, 2022, 32-year-old Julius Thomas was found on the 2800 block of North Street in Baton Rouge with multiple gunshot wounds. Baton Rouge Police responded to reports of a shooting around 4:40 a.m.; Thomas died at the scene. An unfiltered report said as many as 55 shots were fired and Thomas sustained 43 bullet wounds. No arrests have been publicly announced in connection with his death.

Months before his killing, in December, charges against Thomas were dropped in a separate 2019 homicide investigation into the shooting death of Deldrian Cox. The case also notes an unrelated 2018 death: the body of 55-year-old Julius Thomas Sr. was found wrapped in a tarp on South Flannery Road. A local business owner, Kevin Hewitt Dukes, was arrested and tried in that case but was later acquitted; the family described feeling devastated by the verdict.

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