An 18-year-old from Thibodaux, Louisiana, Eric Paul Thibodaux, was shot during a New Year’s Eve party on December 31, 2020, in the Jolie Oaks subdivision in Schriever. A verbal dispute with another young man over a shared romantic interest escalated into a physical fight and then gunfire. Eric and another partygoer, Matthew Badeaux, were both shot multiple times; Badeaux survived, while Eric died of his wounds on January 1, 2021.

Detectives arrested Kamron Kajon Jacquot the day Eric died. Jacquot reportedly told investigators he was the sole shooter, said he acted out of fear, and claimed to have thrown the firearm over the Schriever overpass; the weapon was never recovered. He was charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder and later convicted of second-degree murder and attempted manslaughter.

A life sentence at hard labor was imposed for Eric’s death, with a concurrent twenty-year term for the attempted manslaughter of Matthew Badeaux. Does anyone who attended that party or who knew Eric have information that could shed more light on what happened that night?