On the night of Saturday, November 29, 2025, officers with the Shreveport Police Department responded to reports of shots fired near Illinois Avenue and Broadway Avenue in the Mooretown neighborhood. Patrol units initially found an unoccupied vehicle but no victim at that location. Several blocks away, in the 5600 block of Lucille Street near Murvon Street, officers discovered the body of 53-year-old Eugene Tyrone Watkins lying in the roadway. First responders from the Shreveport Fire Department attempted aid, but Watkins was pronounced dead at the scene; the Caddo Parish Coroner later confirmed his identity by fingerprint comparison and listed the incident as Shreveport’s 36th homicide of the year.

Witnesses said they heard gunfire, saw a person lying in the street, and observed a white Dodge Challenger run over the victim before fleeing. The coroner withheld the specific cause of death pending further examination while police treated the case as a homicide and began searching for the driver. No arrests had been publicly announced as of late December 2025. Funeral services were held at Precious Memories Mortuary with a graveside ceremony December 20 at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.

Did anyone in the area see the white Dodge Challenger or other activity near Lucille Street that night?