An 18-year-old student at L.B. Landry High School, Kenneth Johnson was shot during a double shooting in the 400 block of Josephine Street in New Orleans on the evening of October 4, 2023. First responders were first dispatched to Saint Thomas and Saint Andrew streets but found no victims there; two men with gunshot wounds later arrived separately at local hospitals and were determined to have been wounded in the same incident. Johnson died of his injuries and the Orleans Parish Coroner confirmed his identity and cause of death on October 6.

Family remembered Johnson as someone who could always make you smile and as a proud new father to a two-month-old daughter; his grandmother called him her Miracle grandbaby. The New Orleans Police Department Homicide Section identified 18-year-old Khron A. Williams as the primary suspect and an arrest warrant charging him with one count of second-degree murder was issued. Williams was located by NOPD units and taken into custody on November 30, 2023, and booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center in connection with Johnson’s death.

If anyone has information about what happened on Josephine Street that evening, please share what you know with investigators.