Crime

A Shreveport felon convicted in June of illegally possessing a firearm must serve more than a decade in jail and pay a fine, a Caddo Parish judge has ordered.

The Shreveport Police Department is investigating a shooting that left a man dead Monday morning.

Cartavious Cursshuan Pouncy, 21, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced in U.S. District Court Monday, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown. United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote sentenced Pouncy to 20 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for illegal possession of a machine gun. Pouncy pleaded guilty to the charge on March 16.

Shreveport police detectives have arrested a man believed responsible for the early May murder of Raymond Behan on Common Street in downtown Shreveport.

On Friday, July 21, at 11:19 a.m., Shreveport police officers responded to a call of a stabbing in the 7500 block of Line Avenue. Upon arrival, officers found that a female victim was suffering from multiple stab wounds all over her body.

Shreveport police have arrested a man wanted in connection to a shooting that happened last month.

Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington presented a crime victim’s reparations check to Carolyn Getter, the mother of Jairiah Hamilton, who was killed in early May 2023 during an armed robbery while working at the Valero gas station in Bossier City.

The Shreveport Police Department made multiple arrests over the course of the weekendof July 22 and 23 for convicted felons in possession of firearms.