In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2024 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 26-year-old Eric Bosley was fatally shot after intervening to protect his mother during a violent domestic assault. Deputies were first alerted when a woman with severe facial injuries arrived at a local hospital and said her boyfriend, identified as Derik K. Rayborn, 47, had attacked her at their Highway 90 E residence and had killed her son and the family dog.

When deputies went to the home they found Eric Bosley and the family dog deceased inside with apparent gunshot wounds. Investigators say Bosley had stepped in to defend his mother; she had escaped to the hospital for treatment. Rayborn was located at that same hospital and was taken into custody. He was charged with second-degree murder in Bosley’s death along with attempted second-degree murder, domestic abuse causing serious bodily injury, aggravated cruelty to animals, and illegal possession and use of a firearm, and a judge set bond at $2,375,000.

Are there readers in the Lake Charles area who remember this address on Highway 90 E or who have information about the night of January 1, 2024?