An Easter Sunday gathering in St. Bernard, Louisiana, ended with two women dead and a family devastated. On the evening of April 5, 2026, 55-year-old Trenelle Major Collins and her 75-year-old mother, Mary Major, were shot and killed at a home in the 2200 block of Centennial Drive. The violence reportedly began with a verbal argument between Trenelle Collins and her 22-year-old son, Lee Collins III, and escalated when Mary Major tried to intervene.

Lee Collins III is alleged to have retrieved a gun and opened fire, also firing a shot that missed his father. He fled the scene, allegedly stealing a white 2019 Ford stake-bed truck from a nearby business and was tracked heading toward Mississippi. A bulletin described him as armed and dangerous; he was found the next day, April 6, in Mobile, Alabama, and taken into custody at a mental health facility after staff discovered he had given a false name. He was awaiting extradition to St. Bernard Parish on two counts of second-degree murder.

Family and community members were reported to be in shock and trying to understand how a young man described as close to his family could be involved. Did anyone in the St. Bernard area see or hear anything that night that could help clarify what happened?