Shreveport Man Found Guilty in Brutal 2022 Homicide

A Shreveport man who killed someone in a drug deal gone wrong has been found guilty of second-degree murder by a Caddo Parish jury yesterday.

21 year-old Lloyd Tremaine Cooks, back in 2022, met 31 year-old Jeremy Wyatt at a gas station to buy marijuana. Before the deal could go down, Cooks got out of his car and fired over two-dozen shots in to Wyatt's car with two guns. Several of the bullets hit Wyatt, killing him.

The passenger from Wyatt's car at the time of the shooting testified in court, as well as responding SPD Detectives. A forensic pathologist told the jury that Wyatt died from multiple gunshot wounds from a pistol and a rifle. Cooks admitted to Officers at the time of his arrest that he arranged the drug-deal, and approaching Wyatt's car firing multiple shots at him. Some of the shooting was caught on security cameras near the gas station.

The Jury took 2 hours to come back with the guilty verdict. When Cooks returns to court in August, he faces a mandatory life prison term at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.