On the night of June 24, 2026, 15-year-old Suhib Yousef of the Southdowns neighborhood in Baton Rouge was killed after taking out the trash. Surveillance footage shows him approach the driver’s side window of an SUV on Poplar Street near Lee Drive and then being dragged more than 250 yards. His body was found in the middle of the street the next morning.

The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound to the neck, and the Baton Rouge Police Department opened a homicide investigation. Liberty High School and the East Baton Rouge Parish School System announced grief counseling for students and faculty.

If anyone who lived in Southdowns or was in the Poplar Street–Lee Drive area that night has information, please share it with Baton Rouge homicide detectives.