Christopher Lee, a 43-year-old man, was shot several times in the first hours of New Year’s Day, January 1, 2022, on Shreveport’s East 72nd Street. Police were called to the 300 block around 2:20 a.m., and neighbors told reporters the house where the gunfire erupted appeared to be vacant—an eerie detail that made the scene feel more like a trap than a home.
Some people nearby didn’t immediately register the shots, thinking the cracks in the dark were just fireworks still echoing across the neighborhood. Others said they heard the gunfire clearly and watched someone rush away in a black car before officers arrived.
When officers reached the location, they found Lee wounded and rushed him to Ochsner LSU Health. Despite the desperate sprint for medical help, he died a short time later. In those early hours, investigators said they were searching for a suspect and had not yet made any arrests, while the city absorbed the grim milestone of its first homicide of the year.
In the days that followed, detectives with Shreveport Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit worked the case through witness interviews and evidence gathered from the scene, and they focused on a named suspect: Ronnie Lee Boyd III. Investigators obtained an arrest warrant on January 11, 2022, accusing Boyd of second-degree murder. Authorities warned he should be considered armed and dangerous as the search continued.
According to later reporting, Boyd evaded capture for months until Shreveport police took him into custody on August 11, 2022. Public incident records and local reporting describe him as the subject-suspect connected to the homicide and note his arrest, aligning with the charge already filed in the warrant. The online sources reviewed here describe the warrant, the second-degree murder accusation, and the eventual arrest, but they do not provide a clearly documented public outcome such as a trial verdict or sentencing in this specific case.
