In the early morning of December 10, 2018, Perry Norwood, 60, known as Crow to friends and family, was found with a gunshot wound in the 200 block of West 78th Street in the Southern Hills neighborhood of Shreveport. Officers arrived after a call about the shooting at about 4:30 a.m.; Norwood was taken to Ochsner LSU Health but was pronounced dead at 5:07 a.m. The death was recorded as the city’s 57th homicide that year.

Norwood was remembered by classmates and neighbors as a fun-loving, kind, God-fearing man with a warm smile and a contagious laugh; he graduated from Green Oaks High School’s class of 1976 and was noted for gestures like smoking a Thanksgiving turkey for a friend. The Shreveport Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit opened an investigation, canvassing the neighborhood and seeking surveillance footage and witnesses. As of the initial reports, no motive or suspects had been publicly identified.

If anyone in Southern Hills that morning saw anything or has footage that could help investigators, please come forward.