On the evening of November 20, 2022, Melvin Lashard Williams, a 40-year-old Black man, was shot in the 7100 block of Pro Street in the Cedar Grove neighborhood of Shreveport. Police were called around 9:30 p.m.; officers found Williams with a serious gunshot wound to his upper body. He was taken to Ochsner LSU Health hospital but was later pronounced dead.

The Shreveport Police Department classified the case as a homicide and assigned the Violent Crimes Unit to investigate. Detectives developed a person of interest and obtained an arrest warrant for Jeremy Robinson, 33. Robinson was later located and taken into custody and booked into Shreveport City Jail on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with Williams’s death.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Pro Street that night or has information that could help investigators, please come forward.