Devonta Ennis was 25 when he was shot dead inside a vehicle in the 4700 block of Prescott Drive in Baton Rouge on April 25, 2021, at about 7:40 p.m. Surveillance footage from a nearby Dollar General reportedly showed a white Chevrolet Traverse and a silver Nissan Armada boxing in the black Mercedes Ennis occupied; someone exited the Traverse, opened fire on the Mercedes, then fled in the Traverse while the Armada followed. Both the Traverse and the Armada were later found burned in a nearby park and had been reported stolen.

Investigators focused on Curtis Stewart, Jr., who was arrested on June 24, 2021, and booked on charges of second-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon. He was later tried and convicted of Ennis’s second-degree murder, but an appellate court reversed that conviction after Stewart challenged the sufficiency of the circumstantial evidence linking him to the shooting.

If anyone saw activity near Prescott Drive and Beechwood Drive on April 25, 2021, or has information about the burned vehicles, please share what is known with investigators.