Elliot Branch Dauzart, 23, was killed on April 30, 2023, in Alexandria, Louisiana, when gunfire cut through a downtown stretch near Johnston Street and left him mortally wounded. By the time first responders converged on the scene, he had been found in the parking lot between the Greater Alexandria Economic Development Authority and the building that houses the federal post office on Johnston Street, a stark, open space that offered little cover once the shooting started.
Multiple agencies were reported at the location as the night unfolded—Alexandria Police, the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office, Louisiana State Police, and Acadian Ambulance Services—working the area for evidence and trying to piece together what had happened in the moments before the shots. Early reporting put the shooting around 8:00 p.m., and officials asked the public to come forward with anything they might have seen or heard, directing tips to the Alexandria Police Department at 441-6416 or 441-6559. At the time those details were released, no suspect description, motive, or public account of a confrontation was provided.
In the days that followed, the public record that circulated most widely focused on mourning rather than courtroom developments. His death was memorialized as a loss to gun violence, and arrangements were announced for a service celebrating his life and legacy at Second Union Baptist Church, with burial to follow at Garden of Memories Cemetery. Those notices fixed the date and place of his passing—April 30, 2023, in Alexandria—while offering no indication that the case had moved into an arrest phase.
Based on the available online reporting located for this incident, there are no publicly documented arrests, named suspects, or announced charges connected to Dauzart’s killing in the sources reviewed, and no trial or conviction information is reflected there. The last publicly shared investigative posture described the case in its earliest stage—law enforcement on scene, limited details released, and a continuing request for community information.
