Billy Joe Hays, 57, was found shot to death inside a home on the 600 block of Elgie Street in Beaumont, Texas, after police responded to reports of shots fired at 11:49 p.m. on October 18, 2019. Witnesses told officers a suspect entered the residence, shot Hays, and fled west on Elgie Street in a silver, older-model SUV. Hays’ body was located inside a house he had claimed to have purchased with a FEMA grant, a detail featured in local coverage about a month before his death.

Investigators asked neighbors with surveillance cameras to check footage from 11:00 p.m. Friday through 12:30 a.m. Saturday and urged anyone with information to contact them or Southeast Texas Crime Stoppers; a cash reward for anonymous tips was offered. The case is one of three unsolved Beaumont murders from 2019.

Did anyone in the Elgie Street area see the silver SUV or notice anything suspicious that night?