Allen Darrel Halford, 60, was found dead on June 13, 2020, inside his white 2006 Dodge pickup truck in a ditch on the 200 block of Greenville Drive in Clarence, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. The coroner pronounced him dead at the scene and an autopsy was performed at Ochsner’s LSU Health.

Investigators determined Halford’s death was the result of a fatal shooting during an attempted robbery. The Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested A.L. Simmons and charged him with first-degree murder; Simmons was taken to the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center for questioning. The sheriff’s office worked with the district attorney’s office on the prosecution.

Halford, born December 17, 1959, in Natchez, Mississippi, had worked as a millwright until illness forced him to stop and was survived by a son, two daughters and seven grandchildren. Does anyone have information about Halford’s movements in Clarence on June 13, 2020?