Faycal Elhelou

Faycal Niazy Elhelou, 62, a White male, was killed on September 25, 2016, after a confrontation in the Prairie Ronde area of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. What began as an argument tied to a boat he had sold turned into a tense, armed dispute on a rural stretch of LA Highway 103, the kind of road where neighbors know one another and disagreements can feel intensely personal.

According to a report citing the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office, Elhelou and another man both displayed fire ...