Jazzlyn Fields was 32, an African American woman whose life ended on the night of December 14, 2018, in Alexandria, Louisiana. Police were called to a home after a shooting and found her dead from a single gunshot wound. In the days that followed, the bare outline of what happened began to emerge through investigators and early reporting: the scene was not described as a planned attack on her, but as a sudden, volatile household conflict that turned lethal in an instant.
Detectives said two brothers had gotten into an argument. One of them went to retrieve a gun, and the dispute escalated into a physical struggle for control of the weapon. During that struggle, the gun discharged and Fields was struck. What made it especially tragic, according to the account investigators gave, was the sense of chaotic proximity—an argument, a firearm introduced into the room, hands fighting over it, and then a single shot that could not be taken back.
An arrest came quickly. Edward James Conner of Alexandria was taken into custody and booked on a charge of second-degree murder, and reports at the time said he was being held in the Rapides Parish jail. Authorities noted uncertainty about whether the other brother would face charges, and public reporting from that immediate period did not clearly lay out what prosecutors ultimately decided regarding the second man’s role.
In the midst of the criminal case details, Fields’ death was also marked publicly in more personal terms: an obituary notice reported that she “passed away” on December 14, 2018, in Alexandria and referenced funeral services in Louisiana, underscoring that behind the headlines there was a young woman with a community preparing to bury her while the legal system began sorting through responsibility for the shot that killed her.
