Ernest Pops Bernard Sims, 38, was fatally shot outside his Houma home on Mozart Drive in the Ashland North subdivision on a November night in 2015. He ran across his property and into a neighbor’s yard, where he was chased and then shot dead just steps from his front door.

The investigation identified Terrance Damon Moore. Moore was arrested and charged in connection with Sims’s death, tried on a second-degree murder charge, and convicted by a jury of the lesser offense of manslaughter. He was adjudicated a second-felony habitual offender and received an eighty-year sentence at hard labor; the court originally ordered the sentence without parole, probation, or suspension of sentence, a restriction that was later amended to allow parole.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about the events that night, please share what is known.