On the night of December 21, 2019, 24-year-old Brackus Guillory was killed in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Authorities describe Guillory as a bystander who was struck during a shooting; the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office opened a homicide investigation after the incident. Guillory was a Black male and was reported to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time when gunfire erupted.

In the weeks after the shooting, law enforcement arrested multiple people in connection with the case. The loss remains a stark example of an innocent life taken in random violence.

If anyone witnessed the December 21, 2019 shooting or has information about what happened that night, please share what is known.