Brandon Arnold was 19 and employed at a Waffle House in Lafayette, Louisiana when he was killed on the night of Sunday, June 27, 2021. Police were called around 10:45 p.m. to the restaurant on North University Avenue for reports of shots fired and found Arnold in the parking lot, deceased from gunshot wounds.

A second 19-year-old man, Xavier Batiste, was found wounded inside a car at the scene and later died at a hospital. Investigators treated the incident as a double homicide and came to believe the motive was a robbery, with Brandon Arnold identified as the intended target rather than the restaurant.

The day after the shooting, a 23-year-old man, Dejuan Clay, surrendered to police and was taken into custody; authorities determined Batiste had been in a vehicle driven by Clay at the time. If anyone has information about Brandon, Xavier, or the events outside the Waffle House, please share what is known.