On the afternoon of August 28, 2024, a dispute between two half-brothers in Pineville, Louisiana, turned deadly. Twenty-year-old Jacquez Burks, a Black male known to some as Quez, was shot during an argument on the 200 block of Lee Street. First responders arrived about 2:30 PM and found Burks with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a local hospital and later died of his injuries.

The other person involved was Burks’s 18-year-old half-brother, Steven Bush of Natchitoches. Pineville police identified and arrested Bush within a couple of hours; he was booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center and charged with second-degree murder and obstruction of justice, with bond set at $1,025,000. Investigators have not publicly released what the argument was about and the investigation remains ongoing.

If anyone has information about Jacquez Burks, his movements that afternoon, or the events on Lee Street, please share what you know.