Anthony John Bruns, 37, was found dead from a gunshot wound on the side of Percy Burns Road, just south of Reynolds Street on Louisiana Highway 157 in Springhill, Louisiana, on June 19, 2020. Webster Parish deputies responded because the location lay outside Springhill Police jurisdiction, and investigators suspected Bruns had been killed elsewhere before his body was left on the roadside.

Investigators identified a suspect, 21-year-old Logan Harmon Smith of Taylor, Arkansas, who was arrested and reportedly confessed to the shooting but told authorities he did not know Bruns. A clear motive was not established in publicly reported accounts. Deputies Phillip Krouse and Tommy Kemp Jr. were noted as instrumental in the investigation.

In October 2022, Smith went to trial in Webster Parish on a second-degree murder charge. He rejected a pretrial offer to plead to manslaughter with an agreed 35-year term plus 10 years for obstruction and elected jury trial; the victim’s mother and two sisters attended the courthouse. If anyone knew Anthony Bruns, his movements that day, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.