On April 19, 2020, just after 3 a.m., 20-year-old Daymian Malik Taylor was shot on the 700 block of Edwards Street in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana. Officers found him with a gunshot wound to his upper body; he was taken to Ochsner LSU Health hospital and died of his injuries. Reports describe him as an innocent bystander, not the intended target.

Shreveport Police identified 23-year-old Eric Dewayne Collins, Jr. as the primary suspect and charged him with second-degree murder. In March 2022 Collins pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to 17 years at hard labor for his role in Daymian’s death.

If anyone was in the area that night and saw what happened or remembers the dispute on Edwards Street, please share what you know.