Fifteen-year-old Kenneth Smith Jr., a male from New Orleans, was shot in the early morning hours of June 15, 2025, in the city's Lower Ninth Ward and later died at a hospital. According to the Orleans Parish Coroner, he was attacked near the intersection of St. Maurice Avenue and North Prieur Street, an area where neighbors reported hearing a burst of gunfire overnight. He was one of two people killed in separate incidents that night across the city.
In the hours before the shooting, Ken
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