On April 12, 2018 in Greensburg, Louisiana, 28-year-old single mother of four Jermica Irving visited the home of her boyfriend, Jonathan Franklin, with her two youngest children, ages five and nine. That night officers responding to a 911 call found Irving dead on the living room couch from a gunshot wound to the head. The youngest child was asleep in Irving’s lap and the older child slept beside them. Irving’s nine-year-old daughter was the sole eyewitness; she reported being awakened by the sound of a gunshot and hearing her mother gasp, then seeing Jonathan Franklin standing in a doorway holding a gun and offering no response when asked what he had done to her mother. Franklin was arrested, tried on a charge of second-degree murder, and a jury convicted him after a three-day trial; he was sentenced to the mandatory life term.

If anyone knew Jermica Irving or has information about the events that night, please come forward.