On the morning of December 3, 2017, 50-year-old Zakaria Toom was found inside a home on Parnell Drive in Baton Rouge with fatal gunshot wounds. Police were called at about 1:45 a.m.; officers who arrived discovered Toom’s body and opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators quickly focused on a familiar figure. Detectives, with help from Tangipahoa Parish law enforcement, identified 53-year-old Taher Toom of Hammond as the primary suspect; police said the two men were related. Neither man lived at the Parnell Drive residence, but relatives of both did. Taher Toom was arrested at his Hammond home later that day and was booked on second-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon.

Court filings show the case moved forward through conviction and an appeal effort that reached the Louisiana Supreme Court, where a writ was denied in June 2018. The motive for the shooting was not made clear in reports. Does anyone have information about the relationship between Zakaria and Taher or what led to the shooting?