At 2:50 a.m. DeSoto 911 received reports of a male shot while inside his vehicle at the intersection of Kennedy Street and Johnson Street.
The victim, identified as Demonquerius Colbert, 28, was taken to DeSoto Regional Hospital by DeSoto EMS, where he was pronounced dead.
DeSoto Parish sheriff’s detectives were dispatched to the scene to investigate and search for a suspect.
Just over an hour later, at 4:10 a.m., authorities apprehended Vincent Lapatrick Jackson, 20, during a traffic stop conducted by the DeSoto Sheriff’s Special Investigative Unit.
Jackson has been booked into the DeSoto Detention Center on a charge of second-degree murder.
The investigation is ongoing, and no further details are available at this time.