On the night of December 1, 2020, Travis Smiley, 37, was found outside a Colquitt Road residence in Shreveport with a fatal gunshot wound to his upper body. He was pronounced dead at the scene after officers responded just before 1 a.m. to reports of a shooting.

Shreveport homicide investigators identified 35-year-old Shonda Walker as a primary suspect and obtained a warrant charging her with second-degree murder. Walker was later located at a motel in Athens, Texas, and taken into custody with assistance from the Athens Police Department and a U.S. Marshal’s Task Force; she was booked into the Henderson County Jail with bond set at $5 million. Authorities also charged 41-year-old Christopher Barton with obstruction of justice and booked him into the Shreveport City Jail. In March 2021 a Caddo Parish Grand Jury returned indictments against Shonda Cameron Walker, then 35, and Ricky Ray Rios, 43, on second-degree murder charges in connection with Smiley’s death.

Are there witnesses or local residents who recall anything from that area and time that could shed light on what happened?