Daytra and Robert
2018 mother and son murder still unsolved
AT 6:30 PM ON DECEMBER 23, 2018, the neighborhood two miles west of Independence, Louisiana, was quiet, the kind of quiet you only get on a Sunday evening two days before Christmas.
Porch lights on. Cars in the driveway.
Then the shots came.
Residents at the corner Labruzza Lane and Fontana Road called 911.
Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s deputies arrived to find 42-year-old Daytra Miller and her 13-year-old son, Robert West II, dead inside their home. The house was still quiet when deputies pushed through the door.
Daytra had lived at that address for at least fifteen years. That was where she built her home, raised her children, and spent her days. Her aunt, Gloria McGee, described her her as “hard-working, very respectful, full of life, and very loving.”
McGee said Robert was an honors student. “Just an angel, a joy to be around. So loving, respectful. A life cut short.”
Robert was the youngest of six children, the only boy among four sisters. O…
