Seventeen-year-old Chandler Erskine, a White eleventh-grade student at Oak Grove High School, was shot dead on Sunday afternoon, January 20, 2019, at the Oak Grove Rodeo grounds in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Chandler had gone with a 16-year-old friend, Mason Bankston, to meet Westley Freeman to collect twenty dollars; Freeman arrived with two others, KeJominek Woodruff and James Turner, in a Kia Soul. A confrontation escalated into a shooting that left Chandler fatally wounded and Bankston seriously injured; Bankston was airlifted to a hospital but Chandler was found dead on Arena Road.

Investigators recovered tire tracks, a bloody shoe, and later located an AR-style .22-caliber rifle that James Turner said he and Freeman had taken from Bankston’s truck. Surveillance footage from a gas station about thirty minutes before the shooting showed the Kia Soul and Woodruff, which helped identify suspects. Westly X. Freeman was charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder; a jury later convicted him and he received life without parole for the murder plus a consecutive 50-year term for the attempted murder. Turner told investigators about taking the rifle and two cell phones from Bankston’s truck.

Did anyone in Oak Grove recognize the Kia Soul or remember seeing the group together that afternoon?