JaDerris Montrell Taylor was 18 when he was shot and killed on the evening of February 25, 2020, in the 9000 block of South Shreveport Drive, Shreveport, Louisiana. Officers arrived just after 7:00 p.m. and found Taylor lying in the roadway; he had been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators concluded he had been lured to the location.

Detectives identified 19-year-old Traveon Cannon and 21-year-old Kasey Howard as suspects. Surveillance footage showed Cannon and an accomplice picking Taylor up in a car and driving him to the remote spot. Cannon’s phone was recovered near Taylor’s body and reportedly contained text messages planning the abduction and murder plus photos of Cannon with a weapon matching the shell casings at the scene. Cannon confessed and was arrested; he later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a mandatory life sentence as part of a plea in which he agreed to testify against Howard.

Howard was tried separately and convicted of negligent homicide, receiving a five-year sentence with hard labor. Did anyone who knew JaDerris or was in that area on February 25, 2020, see something that could add to the record?