An evening in Shreveport turned fatal on December 1, 2025, when 18-year-old Michael Allen was shot and later died at Ochsner LSU Health. The shooting happened about 7:20 p.m. while Allen was a passenger in a car traveling on Clyde Fant Memorial Parkway near Oden Street; the vehicle’s 26-year-old driver was not injured. Authorities say the car had been at a location on East Washington Street earlier and that shots could have been fired at one of those two locations.

Allen was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead at 8:12 p.m. The Shreveport Police Department opened an investigation, ordered an autopsy, and identified this as the city’s 37th confirmed homicide of the year. No motive, suspect names, or arrests have been released; the investigation remains ongoing. If anyone saw the vehicle on East Washington Street or the parkway that night, or has information about the shooting, please share it with investigators.