Kelvin Montgomery, 49, was found with apparent gunshot wounds in a parking lot at 9702 Greenwell Springs Road in Baton Rouge in the early hours of January 9, 2021. Medical help arrived but Montgomery died at the scene; an obituary gives his name as Kelvin U. Black Montgomery and records his date of death as January 8, 2021. He was a native of Zachary and lived in Baton Rouge.

Baton Rouge Police Department opened a homicide investigation and said the shooting grew out of an altercation, though investigators have not released the specifics of that encounter. The family remembers him as a sweet person. Authorities have asked the public for any information that could identify those responsible and urged witnesses to contact the Baton Rouge Police Department or Crime Stoppers. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced.

Did anyone in the area that night see or hear anything that might help investigators?