The Lafayette Police Department responded to a shooting in progress call early on the morning of Friday, October 20, 2023, that left one man in the hospital from multiple gunshot wounds.
The suspect accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend's house, shooting her then turning the gun on himself has been identified as 63-year-old Jeffery Efaw of Lafayette.
Fox 44 was the first to report on this shooting, and were able to keep track of the story as the police investigation went from the Huggy Bear Convenience Store restroom all the way to Walmart on West Adams.
The mysterious death of a successful Lafayette oil and gas man has been covered by ABC's 20/20, Dateline NBC, Vanity Fair, and numerous True Crime podcasts because the truth in this case if truly stranger than fiction.