UPDATE: Investigators with the Hammond Police Department are focusing on two persons of interest in connection with last week’s shooting at at Chevron on Highway 190 West.
(image courtesy of Hammond Police Department/Facebook)
In the course of their investigation into the June 4, 2026, homicide at the Chevron at 3123 Highway 190 West, detectives with the Hammond Police Department Criminal Investigations Division have developed two persons of interest: Jarvis Steptoe, 26 years old of the Hammond area, and Reginald Steptoe, 21 years old from the Hammond area.
Anyone knowing the whereabouts of these persons is asked to contact Detective Dustin Williams with the Hammond Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at 985-277-5755 or williams_dj@hammond.org, via the Hammond Police Department’s Facebook page, or through Crime Stoppers of Tangipahoa’s anonymous tip line at 1-800-554-5245. Be a part of the solution, and you may be eligible for a cash reward.
UPDATE: The City of Hammond has released the following statement:
June 5, 2026, City of Hammond, LA – Through further investigation, detectives with the Hammond Police Department have identified a suspect vehicle in the June 4, 2026 homicide at the Chevron at 3123 Highway 190 West.
The vehicle is a white 2008 4-door Honda Civic bearing Mississippi License Plate PJY050. During the homicide, one of the suspects shot through the front passenger window of the vehicle and, as a result, the vehicle no longer has a front passenger window.
and to contact the Hammond Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at (985) 277-5755 or call 911 immediately.
A manhunt is underway for at least two people who shot an innocent woman to death inside a vehicle at a Hammond gas station early yesterday morning. Police Chief Edwin Bergeron Jr. said while one car was at a gas pump, another car pulled up to an adjacent pump.
“The other car pulled up next to it, next to that car, and began shooting. Between 70 and 80 shots were shot into this car,” Bergeron explained.
Two masked men fired between 70 and 80 shots into the car with AR-style pistols. Those shots killed 50-year-old Patricia Sheppard, who was sitting in the passenger seat. Chief Bergeron says this was a targeted shooting, but Sheppard was not the target – she was catching a ride home and was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“The lady in the car, Miss Patricia, who’s lost her life, was an absolute innocent victim in this. She was not involved in it,” Bergeron noted.
Bergeron stresses to the public that there is no imminent threat.
“The citizens of Hammond can feel safe that they know that this was not a random act of violence. This was not just somebody randomly who was getting shot at; this was a targeted incident,” Bergeron said.
Bergeron says the vehicle the shooters were in was carjacked in McComb, Mississippi, Tuesday night.
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