Nathaniel Wade Beene, a 46-year-old Black man from Shreveport, Louisiana, was killed on December 5, 2019, in the city’s Queensborough neighborhood. Accounts available online place the violence on Frederick Street, where he was shot in the head and died there in the neighborhood streets he knew.
What happened to him reads like a sudden rupture in an ordinary evening—one moment a familiar block, the next a gunshot that left no time for help to change the outcome.
The limited public descriptions that remain online do not provide a detailed sequence of events beyond the fatal head wound and the location, but they consistently frame his death as part of Shreveport’s ongoing gun violence.
In the years since, publicly accessible online sources do not identify any person arrested, charged, tried, or convicted specifically for Beene’s killing, nor do they name a suspect or describe a confirmed motive. The information that is readily available is sparse—more a marker of a life lost than a fully reported case file—leaving the circumstances of who pulled the trigger, and why, largely unanswered in the public record that can be found online.
