On October 23, 2023, gunfire at a mobile home in the Sweet Gum Mobile Home Park in Carlyss, near Sulphur, Louisiana, left 39-year-old Cole Anthony Sandifer dead from gunshot wounds. Deputies from the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office found Sandifer and his longtime companion, 43-year-old Brittany Ann Prather, inside the residence; Prather was critically wounded and taken to a local hospital.

Brittany Prather died from her injuries on October 26, 2023, leaving the couple’s daughter without either parent. A 22-year-old man, Jonathan Joseph Waite, was arrested about a block from the scene shortly after the shooting. Authorities described the possible motive as domestic in nature.

Waite was originally charged with one count of second-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder; after Prather’s death both counts were upgraded to two counts of second-degree murder, and a judge set bond at $650,000. Who has information about this couple or the events at the Sweet Gum Mobile Home Park that afternoon?