Braylen Foulcard was 16 and a junior at West St. Mary High School when he was shot dead inside his vehicle on Augustine Maze Street in Franklin, Louisiana, on the afternoon of Sunday, October 23, 2016. He had arranged to meet someone to sell a cell phone; at approximately 3:50 p.m. the Franklin Police Department responded to reports of shots fired and found him deceased at the scene.

Investigators identified 15-year-old De’ondric Clarks as the person Foulcard had arranged to meet. Clarks was later tried as an adult; a St. Mary Parish jury found him guilty of second-degree murder in August 2019, and he was sentenced in February 2020 to life at hard labor without parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. Other people were also connected to the case: in December 2018 Raquel Matthews, then 26, was arrested on a charge of accessory after the fact to first-degree murder for allegedly disposing of evidence, and in May 2019 a grand jury indicted 19-year-old Lunden Toussaint on principal to second-degree murder.

If anyone in the Franklin area knew Braylen, was at Augustine Maze Street that day, or has information about the meeting that led to his death, please share what is known.