Donald Wayne Ely was 37 when he was shot multiple times and killed on the evening of June 29, 2017, at 620 East Polk Street near Thomas H. Delpit Drive in Baton Rouge. Emergency crews found him deceased at the scene and the Baton Rouge Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators later tied the shooting to a revenge motive linked to a 2008 incident in which Ely had fatally shot Henry Sterling; prosecutors in that earlier case had characterized Ely’s actions as self-defense. That development led to coordinated arrests with the Louisiana State Police Fugitive Task Force.

Within two months of the killing, 27-year-old Willie Tyrone Dunbar was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Authorities also arrested 45-year-old Deldridge Wilson as a principal to second-degree murder and 24-year-old John Dunbar, Willie’s brother, who faced second-degree murder charges. All three were indicted in November 2017; John Dunbar was arrested again in November 2018 on unrelated attempted murder charges while awaiting trial in Ely’s case.

Did anyone in the Baton Rouge area know Donald Ely or see activity near East Polk Street on June 29, 2017?