Two Shreveport men face attempted second-degree murder charges after police say a delivery driver returned fire when they opened up on his vehicle with more than 60 rounds.
Shreveport police responded Saturday morning to reports of gunfire near Youree Drive and Dazelle Street. Officers later stopped a vehicle leaving the area with its headlights off and found 22-year-old Cadarius Bumcon suffering from gunshot wounds.
KTBS reported that investigators say Bumcon and 22-year-old Deangelo Robinson had been following a man who was making food deliveries. The driver tried to get away. He reached a dead-end road. Police said the pair allegedly opened fire on his vehicle, and the man returned fire.
Both men were charged with attempted second-degree murder. Police said Robinson admitted his involvement after being advised of his rights. Bumcon declined to give a statement.
Police say more than 60 rounds were fired during the shooting. That volume of gunfire turned a delivery route into a running gunfight in a residential stretch of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Investigators recovered shell casings and other evidence from multiple crime scenes. Among the items recovered: a ski mask and gloves. Those finds fit a planned ambush more than a random street clash.
The delivery driver has not been publicly named. Police have not released his condition or said whether anyone else was hit. What they have said is plain enough: he was working, he was followed, he was trapped, and he shot back.
Violent street crime keeps landing in the headlines, from a downtown Minneapolis high-rise shooting to other recent cases that leave working people and first responders in the line of fire. This one ended with the intended target still able to answer the threat.
After the stop, police walked Robinson through his rights. He admitted involvement, according to investigators. Bumcon, wounded and in custody, refused to talk.
The charging decision followed that account. Attempted second-degree murder is the label prosecutors put on the pair. Bond details, case numbers, and a full charging affidavit were not included in the initial police narrative released to the public.
Gunfire aimed at public buildings and private citizens alike continues to draw federal and local attention, including an FBI probe after shots struck an ICE facility in Phoenix. The Shreveport case stays local for now, but the pattern is familiar: armed attackers, a civilian target, and police piecing the scene together after the fact.
A ski mask. Gloves. A dead-end road. A vehicle leaving with the lights off. Those details, taken together, describe predators who meant to finish the job and slip away.
They did not. The delivery driver returned fire. One suspect was found shot. Both were charged. The working man who was followed through his route is the reason the ambush failed.
Other recent cases show how fast armed crime turns lethal, including a North Carolina domestic shooting that left three dead. Here, the intended victim fought back before the body count climbed.
Arrests after a shooting are only the first step. Courts still have to sort intent, ballistics, and who fired which rounds. Police have not said how they counted more than 60 shots or assigned them shooter by shooter. Those answers belong in the case file, not the first news brief.
Shooting cases with clear arrest trails still demand follow-through, whether the defendant is a street suspect or, as in one recent New York matter, a Mount Vernon deputy commissioner charged in a getaway-car case. Accountability starts with charges. It does not end there.
Honest people doing ordinary jobs should not need a gunfight to finish a shift. When predators force that choice, a citizen who can defend himself is not the problem, he is the reason the ambush failed.