On January 7, 2021, Anita Washington Jacobs, 55, was found dead inside her Convent, Louisiana, home from an apparent gunshot wound to the head after a domestic shooting that left another adult wounded. St. James Parish deputies say a man shot two people in the house, then barricaded himself inside with a 6-year-old boy. Deputies retreated after the man fired at them, established a perimeter and negotiated; the man later emerged with the child and was taken into custody, and the child was rescued unharmed.

The suspect has been identified as Anita Jacobs’s 32-year-old son, Carlos Washington, who lived in Convent and has a prior felony narcotics conviction. The other victim, described as Washington’s stepfather, suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and was treated and released from a local hospital. A grand jury returned a true bill on April 27, 2021, charging Washington with Second-Degree Murder, Attempted Second-Degree Murder, Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, and Second-Degree Cruelty to a Juvenile; he was booked into the parish jail.

Does anyone know Anita or have information about what happened that day?