In the early hours of January 16, 2015, Reginald Wess, 50, was shot multiple times at a home in Shreveport, Louisiana, after a dispute inside the house escalated into violence. Police were called to the 100 block of South Greenbrook Loop just before 3:00 a.m. and found Wess under the carport with several gunshot wounds to his upper body. He was taken to University Health but did not survive; the autopsy described five wounds and recovered bullets, with the pathologist saying more than one wound would have been fatal on its own. Toxicology was negative for drugs and alcohol.

Wess had been engaged to marry Mattie Efferson and had lived in the house with her and her sons for about four and a half years. Early reports say an argument ended with Mattie’s son, McKinley Efferson, firing a 9 mm handgun; shell casings and projectiles were ballistically linked to Mattie Efferson’s 9 mm, investigators found the gun hidden under McKinley’s mattress, and McKinley was arrested and charged. The case went to a jury and resulted in a manslaughter conviction and a 36-year sentence, which the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed on November 14, 2018.

Does anyone have information about Wess’s life in Shreveport or about the household on South Greenbrook Loop?