On the night of April 26, 2019, 54-year-old Ralph Davis was shot in the chest inside a residence in the River Gardens neighborhood of Slidell, Louisiana, following a verbal dispute. Deputies from the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office found Davis at the scene and also encountered 34-year-old Terrell Sylvas, who was taken to a hospital with an apparent drug overdose and then arrested after release.

Investigators identified Sylvas as the person who fired the fatal shot. He was initially booked on second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, among other charges. A St. Tammany Parish grand jury returned a true bill in August 2019, indicting Sylvas on one count of second-degree murder plus counts of possession of heroin, illegal carrying of a weapon while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance, and possessing alprazolam at the time of the offense. Little has been released about the dispute or the relationship between Davis and Sylvas.

Did anyone in River Gardens or the Slidell area know Ralph Davis or have information about his connection to Terrell Sylvas?