Woman found dead inside parked car

Shreveport police are searching for a killer tonight.

A woman was found dead inside her car parked in the cedar grove neighborhood.
Nbc 6 reporter Karen Hopkins joins us live from the crime scene with more details on this gruesome discovery.



Police are not releasing the name of the woman killed yet. We have learned she was an active leader in the Shreveport community. She worked for a local non-profit.

People in the Wyngate area say they don’t feel safe at home, with a shooter on the loose.

“This guy's on the run right now we don't know if he's hiding in some bushes around here or what," Jazzmine Mcduffey says.

Shreveport officers say around 6:30 tonight on Wyngate boulevard, adriver saw an SUV stopped in the middle of the road facing the wrong direction. The person got out to check and found a woman dead inside. “An adult woman, suffered at least one gunshot wound to the upper body," Cpl. Bill Goodin.

If someone heard a gunshot, police say no one called to report it. "We can't like it, I didn't even hear a gunshot,” resident Quince Hallman says.

Detectives have taped up the crime scene and blocked off the streets.
Stephanie Jones was trying to reach her mom. “It made me nervous because I couldn't get down there. It's not a good feeling very uncomfortable. I don't like it but this is the only place she can live. She has to stay here a while.”

A crowd of curious neighbors gathered. People watched investigators hunt for a killer, just steps from their homes. “Is somebody going to be patrolling over here because I have three kids. I want to know that me and my kids are going to be safe, that somebody's going to be watching out for us.

“We're conducting neighborhood canvasses, with patrol officers and detectives as well, going door to door out here,” Cpl. Bill Goodin.