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Travis Polk, 21, was found shot in the front yard of a Mission Drive residence in Baton Rouge in the early morning hours of Friday, July 25, 2014. He was sitting in a lawn chair when discovered with a gunshot wound to his upper torso, and was taken to a local hospital where he died later that day. The Baton Rouge Police Department classified the death as a homicide and opened an investigation.

Detectives canvassed the neighborhood for witnesses and possible leads. Investigators said the shooting did not appear random and may have stemmed from an ongoing dispute. Warrants were later issued charging two Baton Rouge men, Thadius D. Butler, 23, and Rodney P. Law, 26, with first-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon; the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force was involved in locating them.

If anyone in the Mission Drive area that night saw anything or has information about Polk’s death, please share what is known.