On the night of October 18, 2020, 24-year-old Brandon Kerlegan was found shot multiple times and died at the scene on the 200 block of Honore Street in St. Martinville, Louisiana. Responding officers were called for shots fired; another man, Bernard Mitchell IV, sustained a graze wound to his arm. Kerlegan was an African American father of a newborn daughter and a son, and a brother whose family said he was a standup guy.

Investigators arrested 20-year-old twin brothers Damontae and Davontae Gardner and charged them with second-degree murder, aggravated assault with a firearm, and aggravated criminal damage to property. Authorities described the probe as ongoing and said additional arrests were possible. The family had already lost Brandon’s 22-year-old brother Tylon in a shooting two years earlier, deepening their grief.