Melvin Webb, 43, was fatally shot in the parking lot of Gloria’s Bayou Lounge on Salmen Street in Slidell, Louisiana, in the early morning of May 19, 2019. The shooting took place about 1:30 a.m. and was captured on an exterior surveillance camera. Webb was found with a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Slidell Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Investigators reported a motive tied to a long-standing family dispute. In 2012 Webb had helped his cousin Dwight Ambo evade law enforcement after Ambo shot and killed Sherman Deas, the father of Jules Pop Johnson, at the same bar. Webb’s wife, who was at the lounge when the shooting occurred, identified Jules Pop Johnson as the shooter and later said she had seen him near their home weeks before the killing. Johnson left the state after the shooting and was arrested in Georgia in June 2019; another man, Tony Maurice Smith, was also arrested in connection with the case and later pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact.