Kendrick Javonne Lesesne was a 25-year-old Black male who died after being shot while driving on the Florida Turnpike on Sunday night, October 19, 2025. According to investigators, he was found with a gunshot wound inside his Hyundai and pronounced dead at the scene following an hours-long closure of the northbound lanes near the 199th Street exit by Hard Rock Stadium in Miami-Dade County. Florida Highway Patrol is leading the case and initially treated it as a possible road-rage shooting.
Relatives described the killing as shocking and senseless. Family members told reporters that Lesesne had moved to South Florida from South Carolina about three years earlier and was working at the Port of Miami. They said he was driving home toward Broward County when someone opened fire on his car on the Turnpike.
As of the latest reports, authorities had not announced any arrests and had not publicly identified a suspect or vehicle description connected to the shooting. Detectives asked for tips from anyone who was on the roadway that evening as they pieced together the sequence of events leading up to the gunfire. A memorial listing acknowledged his death on October 19, 2025, while formal obituaries began to appear as his family arranged services.
