Deadly week on Shreveport highways keeps Caddo near lead in 2025 Louisiana roadway deaths

Shreveport Police officers responded Friday to a crash on Interstate 49, the second accident in two days to involve a fatality.

Demuntae Bell, 26, was identified by the Caddo Parish Coroner’s office as the victim. He died from injuries suffered Friday in a collision at about 8:45 p.m. near the Kings Highway exit. Bell was taken to Ochsner LSU Health but was pronounced dead at 9:50.

That followed a Thursday night single-vehicle crash that resulted in the death of the driver of an 18-wheeler on Interstate 220 when — according to information from the Shreveport Police Department — he lost control of his vehicle and ran into a concrete wall…

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