On the morning of October 10, 2025, the body of 62-year-old Lawanna J. Lewis of Lake Charles was found in a ditch on Trousdale Road in Westlake. She had sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the head. Lewis was working that day as a Lyft driver and her vehicle was reported missing.

Investigators say two men requested a Lyft in Lake Charles and that, during the ride, they allegedly shot Lewis, took her truck and left her body roadside. The stolen vehicle was later located that evening in a parking lot in Houston, Texas. Harris County deputies approached the vehicle; the two occupants fled, and one, 23-year-old Ethan Bush of Boyce, Louisiana, was struck and killed by traffic while attempting to cross an interstate. The other occupant, 26-year-old Tristan A. Bush of Lafayette, was captured after a search involving a K-9 unit and air support.

Tristan Bush was taken into custody in Harris County awaiting extradition and has been charged with second-degree murder; bond was set at $2.5 million and authorities said more charges were possible. Evidence from the scene and from the suspects has been used to link them to the homicide. Does anyone have information about Lewis’s last known rides or the men who hailed that Lyft?