Kenneth Demond Hathorn, 18, was shot in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, on January 17, 2023. Deputies from the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office found him inside a vehicle on Railroad Avenue about 10:40 p.m.; he was taken to a local hospital and later died of his wound. Known as Toddle-Man, he was a lifelong Donaldsonville resident and is survived by his mother Brandi Haythorn, his father Kenneth Turner, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles.

Services were held at Mt. Salem Baptist Church with interment in the Protestant cemetery in Donaldsonville. The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office opened a homicide investigation and processed the scene; no motive or suspects were publicly identified and no arrests have been announced.

If anyone has information about what happened that night, please share it with investigators.