Bayou Billionaires producer Brian Flanagan told People that Wells had just started dating Robert Paul Gaddy, although they had known one another for some time, since high school at least.
News broke this morning that Valerie Wells, a reality TV personality who appeared on the 2012 TV series Bayou Billionaires on CMT, had been gunned down outside of a McDonald’s in Shreveport.
Reports indicate that she was sitting in her in the parking lot when 47-year-old Robert Paul Gaddy shot her multiple times.
An officer involved with the case said that Valerie Dowden Wells and Robert Paul Gaddy knew one another, but it was unclear what the nature of their relationship was at the time of the murder-suicide.