Vontré DePaul Broussard, a 21-year-old Black man from Lafayette, Louisiana, was killed on the afternoon of July 24, 2021, after stepping out of a vehicle at the Walgreens parking lot along the 900 block of Gloria Switch Road near University Avenue in Carencro. Police say shots rang out within moments; Broussard was struck, taken to a local hospital, and pronounced dead. Investigators described the shooting as drive-by style, alleging gunfire came from a vehicle driven by Kendall Leopaul who opened fire, sending multiple rounds toward Broussard and into the vehicle he had been in and toward a group of people in the lot.

Authorities publicly identified Leopaul as a suspect and sought the public’s help locating him. By mid-August 2021 law enforcement, including the U.S. Marshals Service and the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office, arrested Leopaul on an outstanding murder warrant connected to the Walgreens shooting. In November 2021 a grand jury returned an indictment charging Leopaul with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, assault by drive-by shooting, and aggravated criminal damage to property; charging documents described rounds fired toward Broussard and other people and damage to the building and a vehicle. A later superseding indictment altered the top count to second-degree murder and included three counts of aggravated criminal damage to property.

If anyone witnessed the shooting at the Walgreens parking lot or has information about that afternoon, please come forward.