TANGIPAHOA, La. — A teenager from Hammond was shot and killed outside a home in the village of Tangipahoa, according to a statement from the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office Sunday.
Shortly after 1 p.m. on Sunday, deputies found Calvin Felton, 18, with a gunshot wound to the stomach in the yard of a home on Martin Luther King Drive, according to TPSO Chief Jimmy Travis.
Felton was apparently taken to a local hospital, where the teenager later died.
Authorities at the sheriff's office are asking anyone with information to call Detective Bobby Bradberry at 985-902-2045. Anyone who wants to remain anonymous has been urged to call Crime Stoppers of Tangipahoa's anonymous tip line at 1-800-554-5245.
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