On the morning of March 27, 1991, 31-year-old cook Donna Ponsano was working at Cajun’s Fabulous Fried Chicken on Florida Boulevard in Baton Rouge when a former employee, Feltus Taylor Jr., returned to the restaurant. Manager Keith Clark, who had fired Taylor weeks earlier, let him in. Taylor retrieved a handgun from his car, forced Ponsano and Clark into a back storeroom, and shot both multiple times in the head before fleeing with about $1,300.

Emergency crews found Ponsano and Clark handcuffed together on the storeroom floor. Both were taken to the hospital; Clark survived but was left permanently paralyzed. Ponsano died of her injuries two days later.

Taylor was arrested later that same day, led police to the stolen money, and confessed. A 1992 jury found him guilty of first-degree murder in Ponsano’s death and recommended death. If anyone knew Donna, her routines, or has information about that morning, please share what you remember.