A person died following a shooting inside a vehicle in the parking lot of the Addis YMCA off LA 1, and police have released few details about what led up to it. The investigation remains active, and no information about a possible suspect has been made public.
Addis police confirmed they are investigating a deadly shooting in the parking lot of the YMCA off LA 1, according to wafb.com. That station reported that sources said a woman was found dead, though it cautioned the details were still coming together, writing simply, “This is a developing story.”
Accounts of the exact timing differ. Unfiltered with Kiran reported that Addis police officers responded to shooting reports around 8:45 a.m. Friday, while the station's report put the call time closer to 9:30 a.m. that same morning. Both outlets agree that one person died at the scene, but the discrepancy in timing has not been resolved.
What Police Have — and Have Not — Said
Beyond confirming the shooting and that it happened inside a vehicle in the YMCA lot, authorities have not released information about what led up to the incident or whether investigators have identified a suspect. The station's report remains the most detailed account of what happened on scene, though even it stopped short of naming the victim or describing a motive.
A separate report from wbrz.com states that Emiley Gassie Thibodeaux was shot and killed in Addis while her husband, a reserve police officer, was cleaning his gun. It is not established whether that report describes the same incident as Friday's YMCA parking lot shooting.
A Pattern Addis Has Seen Before
Friday's shooting is not the first fatal incident to draw scrutiny to how quickly Addis authorities identify suspects. In a separate case earlier this year, wafb.com reported that a shooting around noon left one person dead and another in police custody, with Addis Police Chief Ricky Anderson identifying Lucien Thompson, 22, as accused of shooting a 16-year-old male with a stolen gun. That report described the case as the second murder of the year in Addis.
The WBRZ report also noted that in three other recent accidental shootings in the Baton Rouge area, suspects were charged within hours or by the following weekend — a comparison it raised while questioning the pace of the investigation into Thibodeaux's death. Baton Rouge had recorded 42 homicides since January as of a July report from The Advocate, matching the midpoint tally from the previous year, with the parishwide number at 53.
For now, the circumstances behind Friday's shooting in the YMCA lot remain unclear, and neither station nor Unfiltered with Kiran has reported an arrest. Addis police have described the investigation as ongoing, and no further updates have been released as of Friday afternoon.
