Kayelyn Ford, 22, was shot and killed outside her Tanglewood Apartments home on Hooper Road just after 3 a.m. on Monday, May 19, 2025. Earlier that night she had called the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office saying her ex-boyfriend, 24-year-old Brandon Bell, was trying to enter her apartment with an old key; deputies searched the unit and found nothing. Ford and a friend left the apartment afterward to stay elsewhere for safety.

Detectives say Bell had been lying in a nearby wooded area and ambushed Ford as she left, fatally shooting her. Bell then turned the gun on himself and was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and was not expected to survive. Court records show Bell had been arrested for domestic battery at the same complex the previous month, and Ford obtained a restraining order on May 15 that banned him from coming within 100 yards of her. Investigators also believe Bell used his grandparents’ vehicle to drive to Baton Rouge that morning.

Does anyone who lived at Tanglewood Apartments in May 2025 remember seeing either Ford or Bell, or noticed anything unusual that night?