A long-simmering dispute in Amite, Louisiana, ended in deadly violence on June 17, 2015. Twenty-seven-year-old Joshua Lee was shot and killed in a parking lot on Highway 51, in the 400 block of NW Central Avenue. Lee was with his girlfriend when an argument with 39-year-old Jermaine Williams escalated; Williams allegedly opened fire and Lee was struck and killed. The girlfriend was not injured.

Police arrived at the scene soon after the shooting and arrested Jermaine Williams, who was booked on second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder. The Amite police chief described the killing as the culmination of a continuing conflict between the two men.

If anyone has information about Joshua Lee, the incident on June 17, 2015, or the events leading up to it, please share what is known.