On the evening of September 29, 2021, 18-year-old Tacolby Burton, a Black male, was shot dead along the back fence line of the Canterbury House Apartments at 301 Spartan Drive in Slidell, Louisiana. Deputies from the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office found Burton with several gunshot wounds and the case was investigated as a homicide.

Investigators developed a suspect and eventually obtained a warrant. On the evening of February 10, 2024, a routine traffic stop for a vehicle with non-functioning taillights on Bayou Liberty Road led a patrol deputy to identify the driver as 23-year-old Tyrese Batiste. A records check showed Batiste was wanted by the Slidell Police Department on the active warrant for Burton’s first-degree murder; Batiste was taken into custody without incident and booked as a fugitive.

If anyone has information about Tacolby Burton, the shooting at Canterbury House Apartments, or the events of that night, please share what is known.