Latoya Kellum, 30, was shot and later died at a Shreveport hospital on Saturday, September 17, 2022. The shooting happened just before 11 p.m. in the Mooretown neighborhood on the 4200 block of Illinois Avenue. Kellum was found inside a vehicle with at least one gunshot wound to her upper body and was transported to Ochsner LSU Health, where she was pronounced dead at 11:54 p.m.

Shreveport Police Department homicide detectives handled the case as the city’s 55th homicide of the year. No suspects or arrests have been publicly identified and investigators describe the inquiry as ongoing. Few additional details about the circumstances have been released.

If anyone has information about the shooting on Illinois Avenue, please contact the Shreveport Police Department.