She was McKenzie Rideau, age 16, a female from Lake Charles whose friends remembered the way her smile softened rooms and whose school banners still carried her name. On the night that turned into May 20, 2025, a graduation celebration drew teenagers to a short-term rental home in the University subdivision, near Central Parkway and Overhill Drive. Around midnight, the quiet of the neighborhood split apart as a volley of gunfire tore across the party—neighbors would later describe hearing thir
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