Dalton Taylor, 23, died after an accidental gunshot wound on September 3, 2025, at his home on Dorcheat Road near the Evergreen community in Minden, Louisiana. He was privately taken to Minden Medical Center, where emergency staff treated him but he did not survive. Webster Parish Sheriff’s deputies responded to the medical center around 5 p.m. after a report of a gunshot victim and launched an investigation.

After interviewing witnesses and examining the scene, authorities concluded the shooting was accidental. Sheriff Jason Parker said Taylor’s own handgun had discharged and struck him in the lower abdomen, and that no foul play was involved. Taylor was born December 3, 2001, in Shreveport and worked as a welder for Webster Machine Works; his obituary notes he was an avid hunter and fisherman and left behind a fiancée and two daughters.

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