On the evening of November 9, 2024, gunfire erupted outside KOK Wings and Things on East University Avenue in Lafayette, just across from the University of Louisiana campus. The shooting, which began around 7:30 p.m. after a homecoming football game, killed 24-year-old Jamir Carmouche and 26-year-old Corey Mouton. Two other men, Lawrence Levy and Carlos Charles, were also shot and taken to a hospital in stable condition.

Jamir Carmouche, a 24-year-old Black man who worked as a truck driver and had returned to Lafayette to spend the weekend with his girlfriend, was described by family as an innocent bystander. Lafayette police said one of the victims who died at the scene appeared to have been the intended target, while Jamir and the two wounded men were bystanders. Family and friends held a balloon release and urged an end to gun violence.

A Lafayette Parish grand jury later indicted four men on two counts of second-degree murder and related attempted murder counts; those defendants were awaiting trial in the 15th Judicial District Court as of February 2025. If anyone has information about the shooting or Jamir’s last night in Lafayette, please come forward.