Troydell Javon Simmons, 34, a Black man, was killed on the night of May 30, 2024, outside Carencro, Louisiana, in a stretch of roadway where the quiet can turn sudden and unforgiving. Deputies with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office were called to the 400 block of Louveteau Road at about 10:15 p.m., and there they found him lying in the roadway with an apparent gunshot wound. Not long after, authorities said he died from those injuries.
As detectives worked backward from the scene,
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