Seventeen-year-old Mekhi Darville, a student at St. Amant High School, was shot and killed at a Fuel Smart gas station on South Burnside Avenue in Gonzales on November 11, 2022. The shooting followed a social media feud between two groups of juveniles; Darville was not part of the dispute. He had been giving two friends a ride after an East Ascension High football game and, according to police and his mother, stepped out of his vehicle to try to calm the situation. Witnesses say he urged the antagonists to put their guns down and fight the old-fashioned way, and was struck by a single bullet to the chest. He was taken toward a hospital but died en route.

Three people were arrested in connection with the killing: two juveniles and 18-year-old Jamal Mal Holloway, who was taken into custody on November 25, 2022, and charged with being a principal to second-degree murder plus related offenses. The current status of the juvenile defendants has not been disclosed. Anyone who was at the gas station that night or who has information about the confrontation is asked to come forward.