On the evening of July 15, 2025, 67-year-old Michael Anderson was sitting on his porch at his home in the 2400 block of Highland Road in Baton Rouge when an unknown person approached and fired a single shot, striking him. He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and later died of his injuries. The shooting happened around 7:15 p.m., just feet from a Baton Rouge Police district station, a detail the family found especially shocking.

Anderson grew up on Tennessee Street and served in the military like his two older brothers; family members recall him as the baby brother who always had a smile. Investigators from the Baton Rouge Police Department’s Homicide Unit continued the probe but had not identified a motive or named a suspect. By early August 2025 no arrests had been announced, and the family—already grieving another unsolved gun death in 2010—made public pleas for justice.

Did anyone in the Highland Road or Tennessee Street area see or hear anything that night that could help the investigation?