Samuel James Johns, 34, was fatally shot in Shreveport, Louisiana, on the evening of December 4, 2017. Police responded to the 2100 block of Talbot Street shortly after 6:00 p.m. and found Johns on the front lawn with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers detained 26-year-old Furlonzo Moran at the scene. Investigators recovered a handgun, shell casings, and narcotics nearby. Moran was initially held on unrelated aggravated assault and fugitive charges and later linked to Johns’s killing through physical evidence analyzed by the North Louisiana Crime Lab. Police reported Moran admitted to shooting Johns, saying Johns had been trying to kill him.

On February 14, 2018, Moran was charged with one count of second-degree murder, and a Caddo Parish grand jury indicted him on April 18, 2018. Does anyone have information about Johns’s life in Shreveport or that evening on Talbot Street?