Patricia Shepard, 50, was killed in a mass shooting at a Chevron station on Highway 190 West in Hammond, Louisiana, in the early morning hours of June 4, 2026. Shepard was an innocent bystander, seated in the passenger seat of a car where she had been getting a ride home from her job at Sanderson Farms when another vehicle pulled alongside and two masked shooters opened fire, discharging an estimated 70 to 80 rounds and killing her at the scene.

Police say the attack was aimed at someone who had been in the same vehicle earlier that evening; that intended target had exited before the car arrived at the gas station. The shooters used AR-style pistols and fled in a white 2008 Honda Civic that had been carjacked in Pike County, Mississippi, two days earlier; investigators noted one suspect fired through the Civic’s front passenger window, leaving a distinctive mark. Hammond police have identified 26-year-old Jarvis Steptoe and 21-year-old Reginald Steptoe as persons of interest and described them as armed and dangerous.

What can readers who were in Hammond that night add about movements near the Chevron or the white Honda Civic?