On the afternoon of April 26, 2023, Amaya Jacobs, 35, was driving her red SUV a block from her home in the Caddo Heights neighborhood of Shreveport when she was shot multiple times near the intersection of Fairfax Avenue and Morningside Drive. Other drivers found her vehicle stopped in the middle of the road with the engine in drive; a witness reported bullet holes in the driver-side window. First responders arrived just after 12:15 p.m. and Ms. Jacobs was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds to the face. Her death was counted as the 26th homicide in Shreveport and Caddo Parish that year.

Investigators linked 13 rounds fired from a .22-caliber AR-style rifle to the attack. The probe shifted from an apparent attempted carjacking to a focus on a suspect who knew the victim after surveillance video showed a man pacing with a rifle moments before the shooting. That man, identified as 19-year-old Edduin Silva, was located and taken into custody on May 3, 2023; prosecutors described Ms. Jacobs as his acquaintance and charged Silva with second-degree murder and resisting an officer with force or violence. Three years later, a jury found Silva guilty of second-degree murder and he received a life sentence.

Did anyone who knew Amaya or saw activity in Caddo Heights that day notice anything that could help explain why she was targeted?