On the evening of Saturday, February 4, 2023, 15-year-old LaGrange High School student Quendarrious Woodyard was wounded in a shootout outside a Whitesville Road convenience store in LaGrange, Georgia. Multiple shooters are believed to have exchanged gunfire and Woodyard was struck in the back. First responders took him to Grady Hospital in Atlanta, where he died three days later on Tuesday, February 7, 2023.

The LaGrange Police Department opened a homicide investigation and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was asked to assist. Officials said numerous rounds were fired and that investigators were searching for multiple suspects; no arrests have been announced. Friends and family remembered Woodyard as a young person with his whole life ahead of him.

If anyone was at the Whitesville Road gathering that night or has information about who fired those shots, please come forward to aid the ongoing investigation.