Cameron Ballentine was 17 when he was shot and killed in Shreveport’s Martin Luther King neighborhood on August 31, 2025. The shooting occurred shortly after midnight on Bond Drive while Ballentine was at a friend’s house; he suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to Ochsner LSU Health, where he was pronounced dead at 12:54 a.m. The city recorded this as its 25th homicide of the year.

The Shreveport Police Department opened an investigation and, in initial reports, had not announced any arrests or identified suspects. Ballentine’s family said they believed they knew who was responsible and told investigators that Cameron had been intentionally lured out of the house just before the shooting. His mother described the horror of that night and the family’s grief.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Bond Drive, knew Cameron’s whereabouts that night, or has information about who may have lured him outside, contact the Shreveport Police Department.