Chase Butler, 21, was shot on the night of March 25, 2023, on County Road 420 just outside Kirbyville, Texas, after attending a party at the Buster Parker residence. Authorities say 25-year-old Jadarian Ra'Joan Lee arrived uninvited and got into an altercation with another man named Vic Gilbert. During that confrontation Lee allegedly produced a handgun and fired a single shot that struck Butler in the head.

Butler was taken to CHRISTUS Saint Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont and died about 4 PM the next day, March 26, 2023, with his family at his side. The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office identified Lee as a suspect; deputies say he was wearing the same clothes when taken into custody the day after the shooting and that bullets matching the casing from the scene and the firearm were recovered. Lee was initially booked on multiple charges, later indicted for murder, and prosecutors reduced the charge to manslaughter. During trial, Lee changed his plea to guilty and received a 16-year sentence for manslaughter plus 4 years for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, to run consecutively.

Did anyone at the party see how the confrontation between Lee and Gilbert began or can provide details about what happened that night?