Kwemon Davis, a 23-year-old Black man, was wounded by gunfire in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the late afternoon of March 3, 2015, when violence broke out near the 2200 block of Spanish Town Road by North 22nd Street. Police reported that he was struck and still tried to get away, climbing into a 2010 Mercury Milan and attempting to flee the scene as the minutes after the shooting stretched into a frantic fight to survive.
The injuries didn’t let go.
Davis died days later, with obituary information placing his death on March 5, 2015, in Baton Rouge. In the wake of his passing, those closest to him remembered him as a loving young man taken too soon, someone whose spirit and willingness left a mark on the people around him even in the short time he had.
Publicly available accounts tied to this case describe the shooting, the location, and Davis’s attempt to escape, but they do not identify a shooter by name or describe a confirmed motive. In the sources reviewed, no arrests, charges, trials, or convictions are reported in connection with his death.
