On the evening of Saturday, November 22, 2025, officers with the Mamou Police Department were dispatched to the 600 block of Ninth Street after reports of gunfire in the small Evangeline Parish town of Mamou, Louisiana. When they arrived, they found an unresponsive man who had suffered a gunshot wound to the neck; he was later identified as Kiyochi A. Shaw, a 41-year-old Black/African American male from Mamou.
Shaw was rushed from the scene to Savoy Medical Center, but despite emergency efforts he was pronounced dead at the hospital, and his death was subsequently recorded by national gun-violence tracking sites as a fatal shooting that occurred in Mamou on November 22.
According to statements released by Mamou police, the incident began as a domestic dispute between Shaw and his brother-in-law, Quintin Leon Webb. Witness accounts have not been detailed publicly, but investigators say the argument escalated to the point that a gun was produced and fired, striking Shaw in the neck. At the scene and during the follow-up investigation, officers recovered a firearm they believe was used in the shooting. That weapon was later determined to have been reported stolen out of Evangeline Parish, adding a separate layer of criminal exposure related to its possession.
Within days of the shooting, authorities announced that Webb had been taken into custody in connection with Shaw’s death. Local news reports and parish jail records indicate that Webb, a 40-year-old man from Mamou, was booked into the Evangeline Parish jail on November 24, 2025. He faces a charge of second-degree murder related to the fatal shooting, as well as an additional charge of illegal possession of stolen firearms tied to the recovered weapon. His bond was set at just over $2 million, reflecting both the seriousness of the homicide allegation and the firearm-related offense; earlier reports noted an initial murder charge and a lower bond amount before the full set of charges and bond figures appeared in the sheriff’s roster. As of the latest publicly available information, Webb remains in custody awaiting further court proceedings, and all charges against him are allegations that have yet to be tested at trial.
Shaw’s death has also been marked in the quieter, more personal sphere of memorials and funeral announcements. Online obituary notices and funeral-home postings from Baton Rouge list November 22, 2025, as the date his family “had to say goodbye,” and they describe arrangements for visitation and services at Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church in mid-December. On the National Gun Violence Memorial site, his name appears alongside thousands of other victims of shootings in the United States, with visitors lighting virtual candles and being invited to share photos, memories, and details about his life—such as his personality, work, and family—so that he is remembered as more than just the subject of a crime report. Together, these records portray a man whose life ended suddenly and violently in a family dispute that turned deadly, leaving loved ones to mourn him while the criminal case against the accused shooter moves slowly through the courts.
