Late on a December weekend at the Park Ridge Estates townhouse complex off West Alabama Avenue in Ruston, two men were shot in the head. Officers arriving just after midnight found Robert Thompson of Jonesboro on the ground near a vehicle and 27-year-old Tracy Hampton of Arcadia inside an idling car. Both were taken to Northern Louisiana Medical Center and then airlifted to Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport.

Thompson died that day; Hampton was placed on life support and died on December 31, 2023. The Ruston Police Department classified the incident as a double homicide and investigated potential links to other regional violent crimes, including a previous homicide in Jackson Parish for which Thompson had been described as a person of interest. In early July 2024, police arrested 41-year-old David Ray Teron Taylor of Estate Lane in Ruston on warrants charging two counts of second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; bail was set at $2.75 million.

Is there anyone with information about either victim or the events at Park Ridge Estates that could help the investigation?