A man well-known among the LSU and McKinley High School sports communities who was shot Monday while walking home in Old South Baton Rouge has died.
Shelby Holmes, 38, was less than a half-mile from his house on Missouri Street when he was shot multiple times around 10:30 p.m. in the 1700 block of Braddock Street, Baton Rouge police said in a news release.
He was transported to a local hospital Monday and placed in critical condition. He died Thursday from complications.
Holmes, a huge sports fan, kept statistics for McKinley sports teams. While a student at LSU, he worked as an intern with LSU’s sports information department. More recently, he worked at the Baton Rouge River Center.
When Doug Cossman was wheeled into a New Orleans operating room on Oct. 26, 2013, he clutched a photo of a dear friend he showed off to the staff who would soon be slicing into his abdomen. That friend, Shelby Holmes, was well-known in the Baton Rouge sports community as a big-hearted and fun-loving guy, but he’d died just a day earlier from gunshot wounds received on a walk home that week.
But here he was again, giving Cossman the gift of a life unencumbered by medical problems and dialysis machines in the shape of a new kidney. Come Jan. 31, 2015, Holmes will be thanked for that gift and so many more when he is posthumously crowned the king of the Spanish Town Parade, an event he loved and for which Cossman serves as board member.
“I feel truly lucky to have gotten a kidney. There was a good chance it may never have happened,” Cossman said. “I’m even prouder of the fact that I have Shelby Holmes’ kidney, and that everywhere I go, we all know Shelby’s presence is there inside me.”
On Monday night, 38-year-old Shelby Holmes was shot multiple times on his way home in Baton Rouge, La. He died Thursday, after spending three days in critical condition. He was a student at Louisiana State University who was a regular at football and baseball games, and he didn’t have a car so he usually walked. Police still don’t know why he was shot, and his friends are agonizing over the uncertainty.
“We are going to keep his memory together,” said Carl Dunn, who was Holmes’s friend for nearly 20 years. “We are going to find whoever did this. We are going to get justice for him and he is going to know how many people cared for him and how many people loved him.”
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