On the night of April 26, 2020, 41-year-old Ryan Hord was shot and killed in his Richland Avenue neighborhood in Baton Rouge after confronting a man he suspected of breaking into vehicles. Hord was a former Baton Rouge police officer and an Airborne Ranger in the U.S. Army who later worked with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office and the Baton Rouge Police Department before starting his own construction company. Neighbors remembered him as community-minded, quick-witted, and compassionate.

The suspect was wounded in the exchange and fled on foot before being captured by a Baton Rouge Police Department K-9 officer and taken to a hospital. Authorities later identified the man as 29-year-old Craig Willis, who lived nearby and was arrested after release from medical care on charges related to Hord’s death.

Did anyone in the Richland Avenue area see something that night or have further information about the confrontation?