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==Suicide by firearm==

==Suicide by firearm==

Reeves died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound two weeks after his 59th birthday,<ref name=jleggett>{{cite web|url=http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html

Reeves died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound two weeks after his 59th birthday,<ref name=jleggett>{{cite web|url=http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html

|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,'' June 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.{{cn|date=January 2020}}