Jordy Francis Bellard, 30, was shot and killed on Sunday, June 14, 2015, in Eunice, Louisiana, after an argument at a residence on Shelton Manuel Road. An altercation with Kenneth Scott Prather, 34, of Branch, escalated into violence; an arrest affidavit says Prather shot Bellard twice in the back and, after Bellard had fallen, shot him once more in the head. A 31-year-old woman from Church Point was also wounded in the incident.

In October 2015 a grand jury indicted Kenneth Scott Prather on second-degree murder in Bellard’s death; at the time of the shooting Prather was already facing several drug-related charges. If convicted of second-degree murder he would face a mandatory life sentence.

Did anyone in the Eunice or Branch area hear about tensions involving Bellard and Prather before June 14, 2015?