April Lawonda Charles, a 36-year-old African American woman from Franklin, Louisiana, tragically lost her life on July 5, 2018. She was fatally shot twice in an apartment complex on Ibert Street. The incident was part of a murder-suicide, as the shooter, Kenneth Smith Jr., aged 30, turned the gun on himself immediately afterward.
April Charles had previously filed for a protective order against Kenneth Smith Jr. in May 2018, which was granted by a district judge on June 1, 2018. This was
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