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|title=Web site hit for criticising  Winn DA candidate|author=Jim Leggett|date=March 31, 2006|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> amid allegations of [[embezzlement]] and [[extortion]] in office.<ref name=cnn/> He was accused of having used at least $49,000 in public funds for personal dinners and trips. He killed himself with a single bullet to the chest from a .38 caliber handgun between 5:30 and 9 p.m. on July 22, 2005, at an empty house in Winnfield that he owned. According to the coroner, Dr. Randolph Layne Williams (born April 1948), the bullet entered the left front chest and exited from the back but did not hit the heart. Williams said that Reeves had "been under a good deal of scrutiny and investigation by various agencies recently," but Reeves left no suicide note.<ref name=nola>"Winn Parish district attorney apparently kills himself," ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' July 22, 2015.</ref>  

|title=Web site hit for criticising  Winn DA candidate|author=Jim Leggett|date=March 31, 2006|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> amid allegations of [[embezzlement]] and [[extortion]] in office.<ref name=cnn/> He was accused of having used at least $49,000 in public funds for personal dinners and trips. He killed himself with a single bullet to the chest from a .38 caliber handgun between 5:30 and 9 p.m. on July 22, 2005, at an empty house in Winnfield that he owned. According to the coroner, Dr. Randolph Layne Williams (born April 1948), the bullet entered the left front chest and exited from the back but did not hit the heart. Williams said that Reeves had "been under a good deal of scrutiny and investigation by various agencies recently," but Reeves left no suicide note.<ref name=nola>"Winn Parish district attorney apparently kills himself," ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' July 22, 2015.</ref>  

The office of the then state Attorney General Charles Foti would not confirm whether Reeves was facing an indictment. Several months before Reeves's death, the office of then Louisiana Legislative Auditor Steve Theriot said that the DA had not kept proper records of $169,000 for costs of conference and seminars. Reeves spent his $275,000 budget for 2005 by June and still carried a deficit of $400,000 from the preceding year. Reeves sued to force the Winn Parish Police Jury to pay the cost overruns; he claimed the proper budget should have been $500,000 per year, not $275,000.<ref name=nola/> The [[Internal Revenue Service]] investigated to determine if Reeves had paid payroll taxes for his employees. Interim DA Martin Sanders, subsequently defeated in a bid for the office, cut some employee salaries by 25 percent, reduced hours for others, but still called for the $500,000 budget that Reeves had requested from the police jury. Sanders continued to pursue the suit against the jury.{{cn|date=January 2020}}

The office of the then state Attorney General Charles Foti would not confirm whether Reeves was facing an indictment. Several months before Reeves's death, the office of then Louisiana Legislative Auditor Steve Theriot said that the DA had not kept proper records of $169,000 for costs of conference and seminars. Reeves spent his $275,000 budget for 2005 by June and still carried a deficit of $400,000 from the preceding year. Reeves sued to force the Winn Parish Police Jury to pay the cost overruns; he claimed the proper budget should have been $500,000 per year, not $275,000.<ref name=nola/> The [[Internal Revenue Service]] investigated to determine if Reeves had paid payroll taxes for his employees. Interim DA Martin Sanders, subsequently defeated in a bid for the office, cut some employee salaries by 25 percent, reduced hours for others, but still called for the $500,000 budget that Reeves had requested from the police jury. Sanders continued to pursue the suit against the jury.

   

   

Reeves's maternal uncle, Calvin Marion Robinson (1908-1957), a native of Jamestown in Bienville Parish and a former Winn Parish sheriff,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Robinson&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1172&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=8875090&df=all&|title=Calvin Marion Robinson|publisher=''The Winn Parish Enterprise''|date= December 5, 1957|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref> also committed suicide. Robinson was forty-nine at the time of his death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and had earlier lost his bid for re-election in 1956.<ref>Tom Kelly, "The Only "Extra! Edition" (of ''The Winn Parish Enterprise''), ''The Piney Woods Journal,'' May 25, 2015.</ref>

Reeves' maternal uncle, Calvin Marion Robinson (1908-1957), a native of Jamestown in Bienville Parish and a former Winn Parish sheriff,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Robinson&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1172&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=8875090&df=all&|title=Calvin Marion Robinson|publisher=''The Winn Parish Enterprise'' through Findagrave.com|date= December 5, 1957|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref> also committed suicide. Robinson was forty-nine at the time of his death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and had earlier lost his bid for re-election in 1956.<ref>Tom Kelly, "The Only "Extra! Edition" (of ''The Winn Parish Enterprise''), ''The Piney Woods Journal,'' May 25, 2015.</ref>

Reeves is interred along with his parents at Garden of Memories Cemetery in Winnfield.<ref name=bio/> He was the last Louisiana DA to die in office until April 2015, when [[Charles Scott]] of Shreveport, a Natchitoches native and like Reeves an undergraduate of Northwestern State University, failed to complete his second term as the DA for Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana when he died of a [[heart attack]] while on official business in Baton Rouge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2015/04/24/cox-takes-caddo-da-oath-apparent-louisiana-first/26286263/|title=Cox takes Caddo DA oath after predecessor's death|author=Maya Lau|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=April 24, 2015|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref>

Reeves is interred along with his parents at Garden of Memories Cemetery in Winnfield.<ref name=bio/> He was the last Louisiana DA to die in office until April 2015, when [[Charles Scott]] of Shreveport, a Natchitoches native and like Reeves an undergraduate of Northwestern State University, failed to complete his second term as the DA for Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana when he died of a [[heart attack]] while on official business in Baton Rouge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2015/04/24/cox-takes-caddo-da-oath-apparent-louisiana-first/26286263/|title=Cox takes Caddo DA oath after predecessor's death|author=Maya Lau|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=April 24, 2015|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref>