Kentrell Dyion Bailey was 30 when his body was found in a ditch along Main Street at the intersection of Farm Road in Laplace, Louisiana, on July 28, 2014. He had sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Family and the community knew him as K.T.

Crime camera footage placed Bailey in an older model Oldsmobile on the night he was killed. Detectives identified Alonzo Wilkens, then 28, as a person of interest and determined Wilkens was with Bailey that night. Investigators later searched the vehicle and found the strong smell of bleach and Bailey’s blood in the backseat; the murder weapon was never recovered.

A manhunt for Wilkens involved multiple agencies across several parishes before his arrest. In May 2019 Wilkens pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit second degree murder and obstruction of justice and received concurrent maximum terms of 30 years for each count. Bailey’s mother told the court her son’s life had been taken senselessly.

If anyone knew K.T. or has information about what happened the night he was killed, please share what you know.