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Joshua Touchet was 24 when he was fatally shot at the Twelve Palms RV Park on Broad Street in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on July 22, 2017. The shooting followed an earlier robbery at the RV park in which two men took a cell phone and $7 from another man, Clinton Curtice. Touchet was sitting in his vehicle and was shot after he refused to roll down his car window; he was taken to a local hospital where he died of his wounds.

The Lake Charles Police Department identified three suspects. Officers arrested 20-year-old Desmond Kemon Orphey and an unnamed 14-year-old based on a physical description, and later took 28-year-old Johnnie Paul Hardman into custody. Prosecutors said Hardman fired the gun and that Orphey actively participated in the robbery; surveillance footage shown at trial placed Orphey at the scene despite his denial.

A jury convicted Johnnie Hardman of first-degree murder in 2018. In August 2019, Desmond Kemon Orphey was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole; that conviction was later affirmed on appeal and the Louisiana Supreme Court denied a subsequent appeal in his case.

Did anyone who knew Joshua or was at the Twelve Palms RV Park that night see something that might add detail to the timeline?