From: Center Police Department
Re: Shooting incident on Rex St.

On October 22 nd , 2024, at approximately 2:30 p.m. the Center Police Department communications
center received a 911 call regarding a shooting on Rex St. with one individual injured.
Officers responded to the scene and on their arrival, it was learned that the shooter was still on scene.
Officers were able to detain Darrell Barnes, who was identified as the shooter without incident. It was then
learned that Lajagger Barnes was the victim and had been transported to the Emergency Department by a
personal vehicle with a gunshot wound to the chest.
Lajagger Barnes was pronounced deceased a short time after arriving at the Center E.R. by the E.R. physician
on duty.
Center P.D. Detectives responded to the scene and began processing the scene and collecting evidence.
Darrell was arrested and charged with Manslaughter, Felony 2, transported to the Shelby County Sheriffs
Office, and booked into the jail without incident.
Lajagger was transported to the Southwest Institute of Forensic Science for an autopsy.
Officers and Detectives cleared the scene at around 5:30 p.m. At 6:15, the CPD Communications received
another 911 call to the shooting location regarding a disturbance with weapons.
On arrival, it was learned that a vehicle with four males arrived on the scene displaying weapons in possible
retaliation for the earlier incident, but those persons had left the location before law enforcement arrived.
CPD Officers obtained a vehicle description and located it moments after it departed the scene. CPD Officers
attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the suspect vehicle and it failed to stop for officers.
CPD Officers pursued the suspect vehicle for a short time before it pulled into the yard of a residence on
Matlock St. One individual exited the vehicle and fled on foot from officers.
Three individuals were detained on the scene. They were identified as JaCarlos Pruitt, and Jason Calloway Jr.
All three were detained and transported to the Center P.D. for questioning. The fourth person in the vehicle
was a juvenile.
During interviews, the identity of the suspect who fled on foot was revealed to be Chayse Duckett.

Officers then obtained an arrest warrant for Duckett. Pruitt, and Calloway, were taken into custody and
transported to the Shelby County Sheriffs Office and booked into jail without incident.
Duckett was arrested on 10/24/2024, in Nacogdoches, transported to the Shelby County Sheriffs Office, and
booked into jail on the warrant for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, without incident.
This case is an ongoing investigation, and no further information is available at this time.
The Center Police Department would like to thank the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, Texas Department of
Public Safety Troopers, Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Wardens, Shelby County District Attorney, Allegiance
EMS, Shelby County Constable Pct. 5, Nacogdoches Police Department, and Shelby County Pct. 1 Judge Donna
Hughes; for all their assistance in both incidents that occurred.