Chavez Parker, 29, was killed in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the winter of 2021. On December 21, two men arranged to meet Parker at his home in the 6600 block of Melara Avenue under the pretense of smoking marijuana but had discussed by text messages a plan to rob him and obtain firearms. At the residence Parker was shot four times in the upper body, with wounds to his head, cheek, neck, and shoulder. Ballistics showed shots from two different guns of the same brand, and a pathologist testified that shots from both weapons were fatal.

After the shooting, the two returned to the scene about ten minutes later. Persley dropped Peace off; Peace then got into Parker’s car and—unable to move the body into the passenger seat—drove the vehicle while seated on the deceased victim’s lap to the Linwood Home Apartments. An eyewitness reported seeing Peace there laughing; officers later spotted him wiping down the car and he fled to Fort Worth, Texas, where he was arrested. Peace, 24 at trial, was convicted of second-degree murder on November 3, 2023, and sentenced to life at hard labor without probation, parole, or suspension of sentence. On February 13, 2025, after a trial with 11 witnesses, Darius Persley, 25, was also found guilty of second-degree murder by a unanimous jury.

Did anyone in the Shreveport area know Chavez Parker or see him in the days before December 21, 2021?