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Sixteen-year-old Tory Horton was shot and killed on the afternoon of August 5, 2016, in LaPlace, Louisiana. Horton, an East St. John High School student who had planned to get a haircut and graduate in May 2019, walked to LaPlace Discount at the corner of Airline Highway and Cambridge after finding the barbershop crowded. While standing outside the store he was ambushed and fatally shot by assailants who reportedly had an ongoing dispute with his older brother.
The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office identified two people believed responsible. Bruce Butler Jr. was arrested and later charged as a principal to second-degree murder. The alleged shooter, identified as Frederick Seymore Jr., fled and was located by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force in Houston, Texas, after a six-day manhunt; he was extradited to Louisiana on second-degree murder charges.
During a June 2019 trial, Butler testified and identified Seymore as the shooter; a jury found Seymore guilty. Does anyone have information about Tory, his routines that afternoon, or witnessing activity near Airline Highway and Cambridge on August 5, 2016?