In the early hours of August 22, 2021, 26-year-old Javoria Sherman was shot in the parking lot of King’s Liquor Store in the 4300 block of Hilry Huckaby III Drive in Shreveport. The shooting happened shortly after 1:30 a.m. and Sherman was placed in a private vehicle and taken from the scene. Deputies with the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office stopped that vehicle at North Lakeshore and Lorraine Drive and rushed Sherman to Ochsner LSU Health Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Shreveport Police detectives processed both the liquor store lot and the location where deputies stopped the vehicle. Investigators identified James Earl Gray Jr. as a suspect and obtained a warrant charging him with second-degree murder. Gray was found in Nacogdoches, Texas, and taken into custody there pending extradition to Caddo Parish to face the charge.

Does anyone have information about the shooting or remember seeing activity around King’s Liquor Store that night?