In the quiet early hours of July 13, 2025, a 20-year-old man, Jonathan Neal Bernard, male, was shot in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Officers with the Lake Charles Police Department were called to the 200 block of North 1st Avenue on a report of gunfire and opened a homicide investigation soon after. News notices that day and the following morning described the scene as a deadly shooting under active investigation.
Within days, local coverage framed the loss as part of a broader wave of gun v
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