On January 26, 2019, 20-year-old Summer Yvette Ernest was shot and killed at the family home on Courtney Road in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, during a multi-site killing spree that left five people dead. Summer, her father Billy Ernest, 43, and her brother Tanner Ernest, 17, were killed inside the Ernest residence. Two younger children in the home were not physically harmed and escaped to a neighbor’s house to report what had happened.

The suspect, 21-year-old Dakota Theriot, had been living with the Ernest family for a couple of weeks. After the killings in Livingston Parish he fled in Billy Ernest’s pickup truck and drove to his parents’ home in Gonzales, Ascension Parish, where both his father, Keith Theriot, 50, and his mother, Elizabeth Theriot, 50, were also fatally shot. Keith Theriot was able to identify his son as the shooter before he died.

A manhunt led to Dakota Theriot’s capture the next day in Richmond County, Virginia, at his grandmother’s house, and he was returned to Louisiana to face murder charges. Authorities reported the shootings were related to a domestic dispute and that Theriot had been asked to leave the Ernest home shortly before the violence.

If anyone knew Summer or has information about her days before January 26, please share what you know.