On the night of May 3, 2022, 16-year-old Carltez Alonte Tucker was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Tiger Vape Shop on Bob Pettit Boulevard in Baton Rouge, an area behind the Tigerland bar Reggie’s. Tucker, an African American resident of nearby Prairieville, was found deceased around 9:00 PM with fatal gunshot wounds. A 24-year-old woman was later admitted to a local hospital the next morning with non-life-threatening gunshot injuries.

Investigators said the violence grew out of a dispute over a stolen firearm that Tucker had allegedly taken. The Baton Rouge Police Department received an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip that helped identify suspects. On May 12, 2022, three men — Denzel Louis, 23, Johnathan Smith, 25, and 19-year-old Rickey McClain — were arrested and charged with first-degree murder and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison as the inquiry continued.

Does anyone have information about Tucker’s last movements that night or the dispute over the firearm?