On Christmas Eve 2018 in Lutcher, Louisiana, gunfire outside the Neighborhood Lounge on Main Street during a post–Festival of the Bonfires party left two young men dead and two others wounded. Twenty-year-old Thaddeus Watis was killed in the shooting; another victim, 23-year-old Dedrick Paul Green Jr., later died after being transported to a hospital. A 25-year-old and a 15-year-old were injured and survived.

The St. James Parish Sheriff’s Office found numerous bullet casings and recovered a rifle and a handgun at the scene as hundreds of people fled. Authorities said a rivalry between young men from Lutcher and nearby Convent was a suspected factor, though no definitive motive was immediately established. Watis was a college football player at Arkansas Baptist College who was home for Christmas break.

In the weeks after the attack, two suspects were arrested: 24-year-old Tyquan Twendell Williams in January 2019, and 21-year-old Jermain Lee Lewis Jr., apprehended in Baton Rouge with U.S. Marshals and held on a $375,000 bond. Did anyone who attended the Festival of the Bonfires or the Neighborhood Lounge that night see something that could help piece together what happened?