Overview
- The incidents happened within about an hour on Thursday and produced three separate scenes in Shreveport at West 61st and Linwood, the 5800 block of Attaway Street, and the Centenary/Topeka/Olive area.
- Officers found a deceased person near West 61st and Linwood and are working to determine whether that death is connected to the other shootings.
- At the Attaway Street scene several people fled and an adult male later arrived at a hospital with an apparent gunshot wound.
- In the Centenary drive-by, a gray four-door sedan opened fire on three men and one was shot in the leg and thigh and taken to Ochsner LSU Health with non-life-threatening injuries.
- Local reports describe a large response with dozens of police and firefighters and investigators say casualty totals, motive, and definitive links between scenes remain under investigation while authorities seek witnesses and more information.