On Sunday afternoon the Elysian Fields ISD released a statement, mourning the loss of one of their students in a shooting in Shreveport on Saturday.

“Our Elysian Fields community is heartbroken at the tragic loss of one of our own. Kip Lewis, a junior student at Elysian Fields High School, passed away Saturday evening.

Lewis was shot at the Krewe of Gemini Parade in Shreveport.

Kip was shot near the Krewe of Gemini Mardi Gras parade route on the 2200 block of Clyde Fant Pkwy in Shreveport around 5:45 p.m. The Caddo Parish Coroner says he died of his wounds at Ochsner LSU Health Hospital less than an hour later.

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