On the late afternoon of November 29, 2025, a shooting at a hair salon in the Town & Country Shopping Center near Highway 51 and West Thomas Street in Hammond, Louisiana, left 18-year-old Jermaine Stevenson Jr. fatally wounded. Officers arrived about 5:15 p.m. after reports of gunfire; witnesses and investigators say an altercation between two teenagers escalated and Stevenson was shot. He was not taken by ambulance but was driven to North Oaks Medical Center in a personal vehicle, where he later died.

Stevenson was a Gretna resident and a native of Covington who had recently graduated from George Washington Carver High School and was studying electrical engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The suspect fled the salon, went to a nearby business, then called the Hammond Police Department; officers arrested 19-year-old Kylan Green at Main’s Market and booked him on charges including second-degree murder and illegal discharge of a weapon. Police described the killing as a senseless resolution of a dispute between young people.

If anyone was at the shopping center that afternoon or has information about the confrontation, please share what you know.