A child custody exchange at an apartment complex in Lafayette ended in deadly violence on July 21, 2026. Twenty-five-year-old Thomas Amile George Jr., known as TJ, was shot at the Arbors at Lafayette on Alcide Dominique Drive. Despite getting to nearby Rosewood Drive, he collapsed and later died at a local hospital.

George was a father of four — Kash, Khalil, Bri’Leigh, and Trace — and remembered by family as devoted and fond of cooking for gatherings. Lafayette police identified 23-year-old Drailun Anthony as a suspect; he was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and was additionally being held on multiple fugitive warrants. Reports say Anthony had prior arrests for domestic abuse, child endangerment, and weapons violations.

Did anyone in Lafayette see or hear anything that afternoon at the Arbors at Lafayette or Rosewood Drive that could help investigators?