A 40-year-old Mississippi man was arrested in the early hours of Sunday, November 8, and charged with attempted second-degree murder after a shooting at a home near Slidell, Louisiana, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office said. Deputies were dispatched shortly after 2 a.m. to a residence in the 200 block of Military Road, where investigators say George Goetz of Waveland, Mississippi, had encountered a female acquaintance and another man, and, after a brief interaction, allegedly produced a firearm and shot the other man. The charge is an allegation: Goetz is presumed innocent unless and until he is proven guilty in court.
Source: AN17 / St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office
The Sheriff's Office account, reported by AN17 in Hammond and by KMEZ 102.9 on Sunday, is short and specific about the setting. The call came in shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 8, as a reported shooting at a residence in the 200 block of Military Road near Slidell, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish. Deputies responded to the home, and the case was handed to the Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit, the detectives who handle the parish's most serious violent-crime investigations.
What the Major Crimes Unit says it found
According to the Sheriff's Office, the Major Crimes Unit investigation established that Goetz, 40, of Waveland, Mississippi, had gone to the Military Road residence, where he encountered two people: a woman described by deputies as his acquaintance, and another man. Following a brief interaction between them, Goetz reportedly produced a firearm and shot the other man, the Sheriff's Office said. Deputies have not described what was said in that brief interaction, what the relationship between Goetz and the man who was shot was, or whether anyone else was at the home. The word 'allegedly' applies to the shooting itself in court terms: the Sheriff's Office has announced an arrest and a charge, not a conviction, and the account above is the investigators' version, which Goetz will have the opportunity to answer in court.
The man who was shot, and what deputies have not released
The man who was shot was transported to an area hospital, the Sheriff's Office said. Deputies did not release his name, his age, where he was struck, or his condition, and no hospital update had been published by Sunday afternoon. The woman at the residence was not reported injured. No other injuries were reported in the Sheriff's Office account, and there was no report of a continuing threat to the Military Road neighbourhood: the man deputies say did the shooting was taken into custody, and the Sheriff's Office presented the incident as a dispute involving people who encountered each other at the home, not a random attack on the street.
The Sheriff's Office has not released the injured man's name or condition, what was said or done in the brief interaction before the shot, whether the firearm was recovered, where exactly Goetz was arrested, or his bond or first court date. Those details usually come with the booking record and the first court filings; Awaaz Punjab will update this report when the Sheriff's Office or the court releases them.
A cross-state case on the I-10 corridor
The case crosses a state line. Goetz is from Waveland, a small city on Mississippi's Gulf Coast, and Slidell sits in Louisiana at the junction of Interstates 10, 12 and 59, just across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans — the two communities are linked by the same I-10 Gulf corridor that carries heavy truck and commuter traffic between Mississippi and Louisiana every day. Military Road is one of Slidell's older local roads, running through residential areas south and east of the city. For the Punjabi truckers and Gulf Coast workers who run the I-10 corridor, Slidell is a familiar fuel, food and rest stop; Sunday's shooting, however, was a residential incident at a private home in the early hours, not a highway or truck-stop event, and no commercial driver or vehicle is involved in the Sheriff's Office account.
In Louisiana, attempted second-degree murder is among the most serious felony charges short of a completed homicide: it alleges that a person tried to kill another person, and it is prosecuted by the district attorney rather than decided by the arresting agency. The Sheriff's Office's role ends with the investigation, the arrest and the booking; whether the single count announced on Sunday remains the charge, is added to, or is changed will be decided as the file moves to prosecutors and a grand jury process, and Goetz is entitled to counsel and to plead not guilty.
What happens next
Goetz was being booked into the St. Tammany Parish Correctional Center in Covington, the Sheriff's Office said on Sunday. The expected next steps in a St. Tammany felony case are a bond setting and a first court appearance in the parish's district court in Covington, followed by the district attorney's charging review; no bond amount or court date had been announced in the reporting available on Sunday afternoon. The second thread to watch is the injured man's condition, which the Sheriff's Office has not updated. Anyone with information about the Military Road shooting can contact the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office, which is the agency handling the investigation.
Sources: St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office account reported by AN17 (Hammond), 'Mississippi man charged with attempted murder following Slidell-area shooting' (Nov. 8, 2026); KMEZ 102.9, 'Mississippi man arrested in shooting near Slidell' (Nov. 8, 2026); and TRH News, 'Mississippi Man Arrested for Attempted Murder Following Shooting Near Slidell' (Nov. 8, 2026) — all three reporting the same Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit findings.