On the evening of Saturday, February 1, 2025, 15-year-old Tameron Willis was shot and killed while walking home in the 200 block of Arthur Street in Lafayette, Louisiana. The shooting occurred at about 7:15 p.m.; Tameron, who attended Lafayette Middle School and Lafayette High School, died at the scene. His father, Daniel Montgomery, says he believes the boy was an innocent victim caught in crossfire while walking from a friend’s house and mindful of an 8 o’clock curfew.

Lafayette Police canvassed the neighborhood and identified two people who were arrested in connection with the killing. Twenty-six-year-old Markeisha Lawrence of Lafayette was booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center. Aerial Biagas, 17, was also taken into custody. Both face one count of second-degree murder and one count of illegal discharge of a firearm; Biagas additionally faces counts of illegal possession of a handgun by a juvenile and resisting an officer. The investigation remains ongoing.

Did anyone in Lafayette see or hear anything that night that could help piece together what happened to Tameron?