DeDawn Bush was 20 when she was shot and killed on a Baton Rouge sidewalk on the evening of June 13, 2018. According to investigators, she was walking in the 2100 block of College Drive when a man approached and fired six times; she died at the scene.

Authorities focused on 38-year-old Billy Pettice, described as someone with a prior dating history with Bush. Pettice had returned to Baton Rouge seeking reconciliation, discovered Bush was in a new relationship, and the pair had a history of domestic disputes, including an incident reported in February 2018. Witnesses said they had been fighting and Pettice had been professing his love before the shooting.

About a week later Pettice was located in Galveston, Texas, after an incident in which he allegedly jumped from a causeway. He was hospitalized, then arrested on a Baton Rouge warrant for theft of a firearm that had reportedly been stolen hours before the murder. Investigators say he took Bush’s cell phone after the shooting. He was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on first-degree murder and firearm theft charges.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything that evening that could help clarify what happened?