Major Wendell Carter III, a 30-year-old man, was killed on October 27, 2014, after a nighttime trip to the Village Apartments in Port Allen turned a small-time marijuana purchase into a sudden ambush. The encounter began as a favor: Ashton E. Taylor asked Carter to help him buy marijuana, and the two went together to the apartment complex to meet a seller. What should have been a quick exchange instead drifted into a stairwell and tightened into a trap, the kind of moment where a few steps and a
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