On the evening of March 18, 2016, 45-year-old Deon Ellis, a Black/African American man, was found with a gunshot wound in the driver’s seat of his vehicle after it struck a utility pole at West 78th Street and Broadway Avenue in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Initial Shreveport Police Department statements said the shooting was not a random act of violence.

If anyone knew Deon, saw activity near West 78th and Broadway on March 18, 2016, or has information about the incident, please share what you know.