On the evening of January 9, 2019, 22-year-old Shreveport Police Officer Chatéri Alyse Payne was fatally shot outside the home she shared with her boyfriend, Tre’Veon Demarcus Anderson, and their young daughter. Payne, a recent police academy graduate who had been on the force only a few months, was in uniform and preparing to leave for her shift when she was struck. She was taken to a nearby hospital and died within hours.

The initial 911 call came from Anderson, who told dispatch that someone else had shot Payne and that he had fired at a person dressed in black fleeing the scene. Investigators soon questioned Anderson’s account and within a week arrested him, charging him with second-degree murder. Two other men, Lawrence Pierre and Glenn Frierson, were also arrested and charged as alleged accomplices; Pierre admitted being present during the killing and led police to the .40-caliber handgun they say was the murder weapon.

What details about the night remain unclear to readers who might have seen or heard something in that neighborhood on January 9, 2019?