Sistrane Edwards, a 53-year-old man, was killed on July 31, 2023, in Ville Platte, Louisiana during a shootout that occurred while a multi-agency law enforcement team executed a warrant at a residence suspected of being a drug house. The exchange of gunfire also killed Ville Platte Deputy Marshal Barry Giglio and left another person critically wounded.

Louisiana State Police opened an investigation that identified 23-year-old Vonteeko Lamar Anderson as a suspect. Anderson was arrested and held at the Evangeline Parish Jail. He was initially booked on drug and weapons charges; those charges were later upgraded and he now faces a first-degree murder charge in the deaths of Edwards and Deputy Marshal Giglio. The case is proceeding through the justice system.

If anyone has information about the events at the residence on July 31 that could help investigators, please come forward.