In the winter of 2021, a 29-year-old man named Chavez Parker was killed in Shreveport, Louisiana. On December 21st, two men, Quinton Peace and Darius Persley, arranged to meet Parker at his home in the 6600 block of Melara Avenue under the guise of smoking marijuana. However, their actual intention was to rob him, a plan they had discussed in text messages where they also talked about obtaining firearms.
At Parker's residence, the situation turned violent, and he was shot four times in
his upper body, with wounds to his head, cheek, neck, and shoulder. Ballistics evidence later revealed that two different guns of the same brand were used in the shooting, and a pathologist confirmed that shots from both weapons were fatal.
Concerned they might have left behind evidence, Peace and Persley made the chilling decision to return to the crime scene approximately ten minutes after the murder. Persley dropped Peace off, who then got into Parker's car. Unable to move Parker's body into the passenger seat, Peace drove the vehicle to the Linwood Home Apartments while seated on the deceased victim's lap. An eyewitness later testified to seeing Peace at the apartment complex, appearing amused and laughing. As Peace was wiping down the car in the parking lot, he was spotted by two Shreveport Police officers on patrol, which prompted him to flee to Fort Worth, Texas, where he was eventually arrested.
Quinton Peace, 24 at the time of his trial, was found guilty of second-degree murder on November 3, 2023, after a jury deliberated for only half an hour. He was subsequently sentenced to a mandatory life term in prison at hard labor without the possibility of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence. On February 13, 2025, after a trial where 11 witnesses were called, Darius Persley, 25, was also found guilty of second-degree murder by a unanimous jury in a deliberation that lasted 45 minutes.
