Shreveport police say they have closed by arrest their investigation into the October 23 killing of Reginald Pierre Savannah, 21, charging two young men with second-degree murder on Wednesday, November 11, and a third person with obstruction of justice over alleged evidence tampering. The Shreveport Police Department's Violent Crimes Unit announced the arrests after what it described as an extensive investigation into the late-night shooting in the city's Martin Luther King area.

Source: Shreveport-Bossier Journal

The shooting happened on Thursday, October 23, 2026. Officers responded at about 11:35 p.m. to a report of a shooting in the area of Caldwell Street and Freddie Street, where they found a 21-year-old man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to police reporting carried by N' Cuffs. The victim, later identified as Reginald Pierre Savannah, was declared dead at the scene.

Source: N' Cuffs

The Caddo Parish Coroner's Office identified Savannah and said he was pronounced dead at 11:36 p.m. at the scene, outside a home in the 1700 block of Caldwell Street, just south of Green Oaks High School, the Shreveport-Bossier Advocate reported in its account of the identification. Police have not publicly described a motive, and the accounts of the arrests do not describe any weapon being recovered.

Source: Shreveport-Bossier Advocate

Who has been charged

Police identified the two homicide suspects as Malik West, 19, and Marques Wilson Jr., 20. Both face a charge of second-degree murder, the department said. The charges are allegations; neither man has been convicted, and both are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.

Source: Shreveport-Bossier Journal

West was already in custody at the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office on an unrelated charge when, on Wednesday, November 11, he was arrested on the second-degree murder charge in this case, according to both the Shreveport-Bossier Journal and N' Cuffs. Wilson was arrested on November 11 and booked into the Caddo Correctional Center in Shreveport on the second-degree murder charge.

Source: N' Cuffs

A third person, Breanna West, was arrested earlier, on November 6, and charged with obstruction of justice after investigators determined she had tampered with evidence pertaining to the homicide investigation, police said. The department has not released further detail about the evidence allegation, and that charge, too, is an allegation that remains to be tested in court.

Source: Shreveport-Bossier Journal

Background: a three-week investigation

The arrests close a case that has been open since the night of October 23, when Savannah was shot multiple times outside the Caldwell Street home. In the weeks that followed, Shreveport detectives appealed publicly for information from the Martin Luther King neighbourhood, and the Advocate reported that police named a person of interest and asked residents with information to contact the department or Caddo-Shreveport Crime Stoppers. The department now says its Violent Crimes Unit identified the two men it has charged, and it describes the investigation as closed by arrest — the point at which a case passes from detectives to prosecutors.

Source: Shreveport-Bossier Advocate

What happens next

The two murder cases will now move through the courts in Caddo Parish, where prosecutors will decide how to present the second-degree murder charges and the accused will have the opportunity to enter pleas and seek bond rulings; West's unrelated Bossier Parish custody matter will proceed separately. The obstruction case against Breanna West follows its own track. Police have released no further court dates, and Awaaz Punjab will update this story if prosecutors file additional information or a court sets hearings. Anyone with information about the October 23 shooting can still contact Shreveport police or Caddo-Shreveport Crime Stoppers, as the department requested in its earlier appeals.

Source: Shreveport-Bossier Journal