Devin Dewayne Myers was 17 when he was shot and killed on March 3, 2022, in the Queensborough neighborhood of Shreveport, Louisiana, a day after his seventeenth birthday. A standout basketball player at Huntington High School with NBA aspirations, Myers had gone to a friend’s house to get a phone charger when he encountered Shamichael Antonio Pearson.

Eyewitnesses described Pearson standing over Myers and firing at least two more times into his body. Myers was shot as many as 13 times. Investigators later recovered a handgun from a freezer at Pearson’s residence; ballistics and DNA testing linked that weapon to the killing. In March 2023 a Caddo Parish jury found Pearson guilty of second-degree murder, and he received a mandatory life sentence without parole.

Myers is remembered by family and the community as a promising young man, and the Devin Myers Opportunity Scholarship was created at Huntington High School in his memory. If anyone knew Devin or has information about the shooting, please share what you know.