On September 1, 2018, 42-year-old Army veteran Reginald Jackson was found at a residence on North Stampley Street in Bastrop with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest. The Bastrop Police Department reported that an argument had preceded the shooting. Acquaintances remembered Jackson as a good-hearted man who often had a joke for every situation.

Investigators identified 44-year-old Bastrop woman Shaletha McGee as the person allegedly involved in the shooting. She fled the scene but surrendered to the Bastrop Police Department a few days later and was arrested and booked into the Morehouse Parish Jail on a second-degree murder charge. The prosecution pursued that charge, and later developments in the case included a guilty plea to a lesser offense and a prison sentence.