I have a question. I was looking for a something in the Shreveport newspaper, but I was unable to find a search engine on the site to look at archives (Aug 9ish). I had a cousin who died there, and the family is being very tight-lipped about the whole thing.
I seem to recall that Brny Sprs is from Shreeveport, as is Kenny Wayne Sheppard. Perhaps your unfortunate cousin was caught between these polar opposites and just exploded.
(OK, so it wasn’t a great post, but it bumped the thread.)
I dunno if this will help, but here’s a link to every obits run in August in the Shreveport Times.