A dispute at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Third Street in Ferriday, Louisiana, on September 8, 2021, ended with the fatal shooting of 55-year-old Ferriday resident Felix Johnson. Officers responding to a report of shots fired found Johnson’s body; the police chief described it as the town’s first homicide in over a year.

The Ferriday Police Department and the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office investigated and identified a suspect. That same day, 19-year-old Denzel Washington of Ferriday was taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder; bond was set at $275,000. Reports say Washington had an earlier arrest that year for entering a local grocery store with a handgun and stealing merchandise.

What can readers who knew Felix, or who were in that neighborhood on September 8, add to the timeline or the events leading up to the shooting?