DeJuan Guillory

DeJuan Guillory, 27, was shot three times and killed by Evangeline Parish, Louisiana Sheriff's Deputy Paul — also reported as Holden — Lafleur on a rural road near Mamou on July 6, 2017, after the deputy stopped the ATV Guillory was riding with his girlfriend. A struggle followed the stop; the deputy said Guillory struck him and knocked him briefly unconscious before Guillory's girlfriend, DeQuince Brown, jumped on his back trying to grab his gun. Brown's attorney said Guillory was already lying face-down, being handcuffed with one hand behind his back, when the deputy fired the first of six shots; witnesses agree only two people were present to see exactly what happened. Brown was initially charged with attempted first-degree murder of a police officer, later reduced to lesser charges. A grand jury declined to indict Lafleur in December 2017. No one has ever been charged in Guillory's death.

Mamou, LA · Evangeline Parish County

• 2017: Case opens — victim reported missing or found.
• Documented milestones (renewed investigation, media coverage, family advocacy) to be added as sourced.
• Present: case remains unresolved. No named suspect has been convicted.

• The traffic stop, the struggle, and the shooting, per Louisiana State Police's investigative report and contemporaneous news accounts.
• The deputy fired six shots, three of which struck Guillory; the deputy said Guillory punched him in the head, dazing him and possibly causing a brief loss of consciousness, before he drew his weapon.
• Guillory's girlfriend, DeQuince Brown, acknowledged jumping on the deputy's back and biting him, but her attorney said this occurred only after the deputy had already shot Guillory once while he was face-down and being handcuffed.
• Brown was arrested on a charge of attempted first-degree murder of a police officer, later reduced to battery of a police officer, aggravated assault against a peace officer, and attempted disarming of a peace officer.
• A grand jury declined to indict Deputy Lafleur on December 14, 2017, the same week it considered charges against Brown separately.
• Guillory's family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the sheriff's office alleging the deputy shot him while he was already restrained and posed no threat.

• Whether Guillory was already face-down and partially handcuffed at the moment the first shot was fired, as Brown's attorney maintained, or whether the struggle was still actively underway, as the deputy's account described, was disputed and never resolved by any criminal trial of the deputy since none occurred.
• The specific sequence connecting the initial punch, the deputy's account of losing consciousness, and the six shots fired has been described somewhat differently across the state police report and the family's civil complaint.
• The full reasoning behind the grand jury's decision not to indict Lafleur has not been made public, as grand jury proceedings are sealed under Louisiana law.

• CNN — “Shooting by deputy leaves man dead, girlfriend charged, questions unanswered”
• KLFY — “Evangeline Parish deputy not indicted in the shooting death of Dejuan Guillory”
• The Advocate — “Girlfriend of man slain by Evangeline deputy pleads not guilty to reduced charges”
• Project Cold Case
• Murder Accountability Project
• NamUs