A dispute that began with a cat-call ended in the death of 36-year-old Kerwin Conner on March 14, 2018, in his Kenner, Louisiana neighborhood. According to prosecutors, Lanard Lavigne confronted Conner and another man after the cat-call; Conner ran back to his nearby apartment to get his pistol and returned armed but did not threaten Lavigne, prosecutors said. Security cameras recorded much of the encounter.Conner fled as Lavigne pursued and fired repeatedly.

Lavigne fired 14 bullets as Conner ran about 175 yards down the 300 block of Clemson Drive, then fired four more shots as Conner reached his apartment doorstep where his wife and 9-year-old daughter were inside. Projectiles struck Conner in both thighs, severing his femoral arteries and causing fatal blood loss.Conner’s pistol was never recovered; prosecutors say someone removed it, leading to an obstruction charge. Lavigne was arrested in October 2018, later convicted by a Jefferson Parish jury on October 21, 2021, of second-degree murder and aggravated criminal damage to property.

Did anyone in Kenner see the confrontation or have additional information about what happened that day?