SHREVEPORT, La. — Justin Brown Jr., 15, was found guilty of manslaughter Friday for the 2024 killing of a Shreveport man.

Judge Justin Courtney found Brown guilty in the Aug. 16, 2024, death of Troy Ducote, 35. According to investigators, a group of juveniles taunted and attacked Ducote with rocks before one shot him in the back as he left the scene. Ducote's body was later found by neighbors in the 3000 block of Boone Street.

A neighbor testified that he saw Brown fire a handgun in Ducote's direction.

At the time of the slaying, Brown was 14, and the Caddo Parish District Attorney's office was denied a request to try him as an adult under a rare provision of Louisiana law.

Brown has been remanded to a juvenile detention center and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 29.

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