Kao Wokoma was 36 and from Lafayette, Louisiana. Family members say he’d been missing since September 13, 2020, and on October 2, 2020 a Lafayette Consolidated Government work crew cleaning a coulee along Hillside Drive found a body they had first mistaken for trash. Authorities initially called the death suspicious and then treated it as a homicide; relatives and local reporting said he had been shot in the head and the coroner determined a gunshot wound was the cause of death.

Police asked the public for surveillance video covering September 14 through October 2 from the coulee network near Hillside Drive and expanded inquiries to backyards and nearby businesses. Family members held vigils at Girard Park and offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. No suspects or arrests had been announced in connection with the killing by the time of the last updates.

Did anyone in the Lafayette area see activity around the coulees between September 14 and October 2, 2020?