On December 23, 2016, 50-year-old Mito Ramirez was shot and killed in the front yard of a home on Monterrey Boulevard in Baton Rouge after being found sleeping there by two brothers who lived at the house. According to the man later charged, 21-year-old Da’Rashio Wicks, he and his brothers tried to wake Ramirez; Wicks told police Ramirez spoke Spanish, produced a pocket knife, chased one brother, and advanced on Wicks from about 30 to 40 feet, whereupon Wicks fired one shot. A knife was recovered near Ramirez’s body.

Witnesses offered a different account, saying Ramirez had been swaying and stumbled to sleep, and that the brothers kicked and punched him to wake him. Those witnesses said Ramirez did chase a brother after being rousted, then Wicks returned with a rifle and shot him. Investigators also reported the bullet path to Ramirez’s abdomen did not match Wicks’s face-to-face version of events. Wicks was arrested and booked on a second-degree murder charge.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see what happened that afternoon or know Ramirez’s movements before he was found asleep in the yard?