On Tuesday afternoon, June 4, 2024, gunfire struck in the 1900 block of Kansas Street in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and 21-year-old James Roland Jayvante Caples was critically wounded. Caples, a Black man who lived in both Louisiana and Texas, was found with life-threatening injuries around 4:30 p.m., transported to a nearby hospital, and later died that same day.

Initial reports gave no motive and no identified suspects. By September 2024, Baton Rouge Police Homicide Detectives had named a suspect and arrested 18-year-old Gabriel Bazile; he was charged with negligent homicide and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. Authorities did not immediately release further details about how the shooting occurred or the basis for the charge.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Kansas Street, knew James Caples, or has information about what happened that afternoon, please share what is known.