Shreveport leaders accept $48K for gun violence initiative

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Willis Knighton Medical Center donated a $48,000 check to the Anglin/Myers public safety initiative on June 16.

The initiative is named to honor Landry Anglin, who was 13 when a stray bullet from a drive-by shooting, and Devin Myers,

Michelle Anglin said, “We know in our case with Landry’s murder how valuable cameras were to the arrest and the prosecution and justice we received.”

According to the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office, the funding will be used to install cameras in ‘strategic locations throughout Caddo Parish.’

The new cameras will be more technologically advanced than those in use now; they will be able to zoom in and will have facial recognition. Right now, Shreveport police have 2,100 cameras connected to the real-time crime center.

Caddo Parish Sheriff Henry Whitehorn Sr. and Shreveport Chief of Police Wayne Smith, along with Clay Young, the chairman of the Louisiana Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Foundation, accepted the check on behalf of the Initiative.

Jaf Fielder CEO and President of Willis Knighton, said, “We have 7,400 employees at Willis Knighton, we are the second largest employer in the area. Our employees and physicians take pride in the fact that Willis Knighton is able to come forward in programs like this and support first responders in these crime initiatives to make us all safe.”

The presentation took place at the Willis Knighton North Eye Institute located at 2611 Greenwood Road in Shreveport.