Demarcus Cunanny Danzell Lewis, 26, was killed after being led from a trailer in Mansfield, Louisiana, to a remote wellsite in DeSoto Parish on the night of October 3, 2020. Video from the trailer shows Douglas Thomas, 41, gesturing for Lewis to follow him and then leading him out by the arm; Thomas placed Lewis in the front passenger seat of his SUV. At the wellsite Thomas shot Lewis once in the head. Lewis’s body was found the next morning, October 4, 2020. An autopsy recorded Lewis as 5 feet 6 inches and 159 pounds, and toxicology was positive for methamphetamine and marijuana.

Thomas left the state after the killing and was located by law enforcement in Kansas before being arrested on October 6 and returned to Louisiana. A DeSoto Parish grand jury indicted him for second-degree murder on December 1, 2020. The defense at trial claimed self-defense, saying Lewis lunged and a struggle ensued before the shot. On May 27, 2022, a jury found Thomas guilty of second-degree murder and he was later sentenced to life in prison at hard labor without probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

Did anyone in the Mansfield area know Lewis or have information about his movements that night?