17-year-old charged with murder in deadly Sweetbriar Street shooting in Lafayette

A Lafayette Parish teen has been arrested on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of another teenager earlier this year, according to the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Keenan Charles, 17, was booked Tuesday into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center in connection with the death of Wykiel Provost.

Sheriff’s deputies originally responded just after 1:30 p.m. April 19 to the 100 block of Sweetbriar Street, where they found a 17-year-old male suffering from a gunshot wound…

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