Juan Antonio Reyes, a 45-year-old Hispanic man, was shot in the chest and killed in Bossier City, Louisiana, on September 3, 2017. Early investigative work produced more questions than answers about who had been with him that night, what drew him into danger, and why the encounter ended in a fatal gunshot.

An early arrest of Zachary Decker on a second-degree murder charge followed eyewitness information, but prosecutors later released Decker when that lead proved false; investigators said Timothy Blake had provided the misinformation. Authorities then arrested 17-year-old Devonta Davis and later tied the name Alonzo Spires to the homicide. Detectives described the conflict as possibly rooted in a dispute involving drugs or an armed robbery, but could not state a definitive motive.

A grand jury indicted Davis on second-degree murder on October 16, 2017. The case concluded with negotiated pleas: on July 15, 2019, Davis pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years at hard labor, and Spires pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a 10-year hard-labor sentence. Does anyone have information about Reyes’s final hours or the people who might have been with him that night?