In the early morning hours of July 6, 2014, 29-year-old James Conrad Rube II was shot and killed on Big Cypress Street in Houma, Louisiana. Rube, who lived in nearby Gray, was knocking on his ex-girlfriend’s door around 3 a.m., which woke a neighbor across the street. The neighbor, 58-year-old Ray Carlos, yelled at Rube from his home. Police reports say Rube then began to approach Carlos’s residence; Carlos fired one shot that struck Rube in the head, killing him instantly.

Officers found Rube deceased on the sidewalk; Carlos called 911 and waited for police at the scene. Carlos was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and booked into the Terrebonne Parish jail. The case was later presented to a grand jury, which found Carlos acted in self-defense and did not return an indictment, so he was not prosecuted for Rube’s death.

Does anyone have additional information about the events that night or knew James Rube?