New details following shooting involving Elysian Fields ISD student

ELYSIAN FIELDS – More details involving an East Texas teen killed at a Mardi Gras Parade over the weekend in Shreveport. 17-year-old Kip Lewis of Elysian Fields and some friends were engaging in what Shreveport police describe as horseplay, chasing each other with plastic swords. For some reason, one of the teens pulled out a handgun and fired a single shot, hitting Lewis in the upper body. Multiple witnesses saw the shooting. Lewis was pronounced dead at a Shreveport hospital. Police say the boy who fired the gun was detained on the scene. The investigation continues.

On Sunday afternoon the Elysian Fields ISD released a statement mourning the loss of one of their students in a shooting in Shreveport on Saturday. That’s according to our news partner KETK along with its news partners KTAL and KSHV. The statement reads, “Our Elysian Fields community is heartbroken at the tragic loss of one of our own. Kip Lewis, a junior student at Elysian Fields High School, passed away Saturday evening. Kip is the son of Bradley and Lorie Lewis, and brother of EFHS graduates Makenna and Hannah. Bradley serves as a board member on the EFISD Board of Trustees and Lorie has been a longtime second-grade teacher at Elysian Fields Elementary School. “Our hearts are breaking for Kip’s family and his many friends in our community and beyond. EFISD is closed for Presidents Day on Monday but the district will make increased counseling services available from our district, through Region 7 ESC, and our local churches for all students when we return to school on Tuesday. We ask that you please join us in surrounding the Lewis family with love and prayers as we commit to standing with them through this most difficult time.”

Kip was shot near the Krewe of Gemini Mardi Gras parade route on Clyde Fant Pkwy. in Shreveport around 5:45 p.m. The Caddo Parish Coroner says he died of his wounds at Ochsner LSU Health Hospital less than an hour later.