A quiet Friday morning in a Thibodaux, Louisiana neighborhood turned deadly on November 24, 2017, when 75-year-old Grace Owens was shot in the back of the head while taking out her trash on Midland Drive. Owens, an African American woman long involved with a local daycare and elementary school, was discovered by her daughter, Debra Owens, who heard a sound like a balloon popping and went outside to find her mother on the ground and a neighbor, 41-year-old Kai D. Williams, standing over her.

Debra called 911 and police arrived to find Williams in the act; he was arrested at the scene. Owens was taken to Thibodaux Regional Medical Center and later transferred to University Medical Hospital in New Orleans, where she died of her injuries. The motive remains unclear.

Williams was charged with second-degree murder and booked into the Lafourche Parish jail with bond set at $2 million. Following psychological evaluations, a judge ruled him incompetent to stand trial in December 2022 and ordered further treatment, with another sanity hearing set for June 2023. Did anyone in Midland Drive or Thibodaux at the time notice anything unusual about the neighborhood or the people involved?