On the morning of Saturday, March 18, 2023, 18-year-old Ronald Johnson of New Orleans was found dead in the middle of a road in Lacombe, Louisiana. An autopsy determined he died of a gunshot wound, and the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators learned Johnson was a wanted person at the time of his death, sought by the Kenner Police Department for an unspecified crime. The nature of that Kenner matter has not been released, and detectives have not publicly identified suspects or made any arrests in the Lacombe homicide.

The circumstances that led to a young man wanted in another jurisdiction being found shot on a roadside remain central to the ongoing inquiry. If anyone knew Ronald Johnson, saw him in Lacombe in mid-March 2023, or has information linking his death to the Kenner matter, please come forward.