On the evening of June 19, 2023, Lafayette Police responded to a shooting in the 100 block of South Orleans Drive and found two victims. Codie Tremaine Laday, 22, a Black man from Lafayette, was transported to a local hospital and later died of his injuries. The other victim, 21-year-old Denzel Smith, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The investigation led to the arrests of 21-year-old Zaylin Sion of Carencro and 18-year-old Alayna Moreau of Church Point. Both were located by the West Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office at a motel in Port Allen and booked as fugitives from Lafayette. Sion was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of illegal discharge of a firearm; Moreau was charged with two counts of accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. Court proceedings were still pending as of July 2025 and no motive or trial dates had been publicly released.

Did anyone in Lafayette have contact with Codie Laday or know of circumstances that might explain why he was targeted that night?