On the evening of March 31, 2021, 19-year-old Xavier Griffin was shot and killed near the Lakeside Garden Apartments in Shreveport, Louisiana. Griffin had been showing a new rifle to friends and fired a celebratory shot into the air. When another young man, 20-year-old Sirelderick Hays, asked to see the rifle, Griffin declined; Hays then tried to seize the firearm and a struggle followed. During the altercation Hays produced a handgun and shot Griffin in the neck. Griffin was pronounced dead at the scene and Hays fled with both the rifle and the handgun.

Surveillance from the apartment complex and Crime Stoppers tips led to the identification of Hays. He was arrested by Shreveport Police on April 7, 2021, and a Caddo Parish grand jury returned indictments in July 2021 for second-degree murder, armed robbery, and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. After trial, a jury convicted Hays of armed robbery and felon in possession and found him guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter.

Does anyone have information about the night at Lakeside Garden Apartments or knew Xavier Griffin?