On November 28, 2022, 19-year-old Ralph Landes of Lacombe was shot while driving in Slidell, Louisiana. The gunfire caused his vehicle to crash; first responders found Landes dead at the scene and the St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office later identified him as the victim. An obituary carried his death on November 29, 2022.

A passenger in the car was also struck, suffering a leg wound and surviving. The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office investigated the shooting and arrested a 15-year-old in connection with Landes’s death; that juvenile was charged with second-degree murder. No further details about motive or the circumstances leading up to the shooting have been released.

If anyone has information about where Landes was headed that night or saw the vehicle at the time of the shooting, please come forward.