On November 26, 2017, four people were killed during a spree of violence that began in a home in Slaughter, Louisiana, and ended at a gas station in Zachary. Gerald Parker, a Black/African American male, was shot and killed inside the Slaughter residence after a gunman forced his way in. Also killed in that home were Laquana Whitfield and her boyfriend Gerald PJ Tate. A witness, who was Parker’s wife and Whitfield’s mother, escaped by locking herself and her grandson in a bathroom and later saw the shooter leave in a truck.

The same gunman then drove to a gas station in Zachary and fatally shot 24-year-old Christopher Jerrod Price. Law enforcement later arrested Taurus Hamilton and his mother, Belinda Hamilton, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Taurus Hamilton was charged in the killings and pleaded not guilty in February 2018 to the three murders in East Feliciana Parish.

If anyone knew Gerald Parker or has information about the events of November 26, 2017, please come forward.