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Harold Bart Oliphant Sr., 55, of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was killed late on the night of June 28, 2014, after an argument inside a bar along Louisiana Highway 22 escalated to gunfire. Oliphant was struck, taken for emergency care, and died of his injuries at a nearby medical facility.
Investigators focused quickly on a single suspect. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards identified 45-year-old Robert Jenks of Springfield, Louisiana, as the man taken into custody in connection with Oliphant’s shooting. Jenks was booked on a second-degree murder charge and on a separate firearms-related booking for possessing a gun in an alcoholic beverage establishment; reports noted it was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney as the case began moving through the system.
The narrative in contemporaneous reports is concise: a bar argument, a handgun produced, and a single fatal shooting that resulted in an arrest rather than a search for an unknown attacker. Does anyone have additional details about the incident, the bar, or witnesses who were there that night?