Shreveport Police arrest suspect in shooting that killed 13-year-old boy, left other children injured

Shreveport Police make an arrest in connection with a shooting at an apartment complex.

Corporal Christopher Bordelon says following a thorough investigation, police arrested 19-year-old Javieon Abbott for shooting three children at the apartment complex’s basketball court.

“One of them being a 13-year-old child, Sha’michal Russell, who was later pronounced deceased; and there was a 17-year-old and a two-year-old also struck by gunfire in this incident,” Bordelon noted.

Bordelon says Abbott was directing his gunfire at the 17-year-old, and it hit and killed 13-year-old Sha’michal Russell in the process.