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Valerie West was 19 when her body was found on June 30, 2014, on the side of Gazette Road in Lafayette, Louisiana, about a block from her home on Madame Germaine Street. An autopsy determined she died of a single, fatal gunshot wound to the head; the coroner described the injury as having been inflicted in a suspicious manner, and the death was investigated as a homicide.

The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office followed leads that led them to a 34-year-old man from Columbia, Mississippi, named Jason Marlin. With assistance from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Marlin was arrested at his residence in Mississippi and extradited to Louisiana. He was charged with second-degree murder, held on $250,000 bond, indicted by a grand jury and pleaded not guilty.

Are there details about Valerie’s movements that day or any witnesses who haven’t yet come forward?