By Mrs. Eileen Hunter — about the author. Posted August 11, 2026.
The victims
On the night of March 10, 2001, three people were killed at 221 Greenwood Drive in the Tanglewood Heights subdivision of Monroe, Louisiana: Levi “Chico” Williams, who lived at the house, and two eleven-year-old boys, Jeremy Staten and Chavez Staten, who were spending the night there. Whatever a reader concludes about who committed this crime, nothing on this site questions its horror. The boys’ deaths are the reason this case deserved — and still deserves — a prosecution that gets the right man. This page reconstructs the night and the investigation from the record.
The night
Anthony Rodgers was opening a new nightclub in Monroe that evening. As the club filled, he sent Douglas Simons out for small bills to make change; Simons tried two gas stations and came back empty. Rodgers then sent Levi Williams — his housemate — back to 221 Greenwood Drive to get money from a safe. The two boys were asleep at the house. Later that night, the men who lived at the house returned and found the bodies, and police were called. A resident told investigators the house was known for drugs and related dealings, and that the likely motive was money and drugs. The full record-based reconstruction is on the case page.
The investigation
| March 2001 | A witness describes a red truck near the scene. The murder weapon — a .22 caliber semi-automatic — is recovered by Monroe police about a week after the killings, discarded on a median. Forensic processing of the scene, the truck Mr. Hunter had rented, and his apartment yields nothing connecting him: no fingerprints, no DNA, no fibers. The forensic record. |
| Spring 2001 | Captain Harris later testifies the investigation hit “a brick wall because nobody would talk,” and that reward money was offered: “Yes sir. Cash money.” |
| 2001-05-04 | Tony Hunter is arrested and held at the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center. |
| 2001-06-12 | A KTVE broadcast names Mr. Hunter in connection with the case. |
| Jul–Aug 2001 | Three incarcerated men come forward claiming jailhouse confessions — every statement after the broadcast and the reward. The informants. |
| 2002-10-17 | Mr. Hunter is indicted. |
| 2004-11-19 | A jury convicts on the informants’ testimony — “the only evidence that directly linked Tony Hunter with the crime” (State v. Hunter, 907 So. 2d 200, 204). Three life terms plus 49½ years. |
The complete dated chronology, through the filings pending today, is on the case timeline.
Unresolved
If Mr. Hunter’s filings are right, the person or people who killed Levi Williams, Jeremy Staten and Chavez Staten have never been held to account. That possibility — documented across the disclosure claims, the informant record, and the window evidence — is why this site asks for something narrower than belief: an evidentiary hearing on the record. (Where the case stands now.)