Teen no-true-billed in cousins' fire deaths

A Shreveport teen arrested for allegedly setting a fire that killed his two juvenile cousins has been no-true-billed by the Caddo Parish Grand Jury.

Marshavion Harris, 15, was arrested October 24, 2025, by Shreveport Police in connection with two deaths that resulted from October 12-13, 2025 fires of a residence in the 3100 block of Milton Street in the Queensborough neighborhood.

The Shreveport Police Department arrested Harris on two counts of second-degree murder, the basis of the charges being arson. The case involves the death of two minor children who died as a result from injuries suffered in the residential fire.

Louisiana law requires an indictment by the Grand Jury to proceed with the prosecution of a person for second-degree murder. Grand Jury proceedings are secret by statutory law. 

The case developed by the Shreveport Police was presented to the Caddo Parish Grand Jury during the week of November 17, 2025. The Caddo Parish Grand Jury returned a “No True Bill” against the accused, Marshavion Harris. The “No True Bill” against Harris indicates that the Grand Jury was not satisfied by the evidence against him.  

According to prosecutors, the home subject to the arson investigation was affected by two separate fires — one at the rear of the residence that occurred just before midnight on October 12, 2025, and the fatal fire that occurred at the front of the residence at approximately 1:45 A.M. on October 13, 2025. Harris and the two minor victims lived in the house with approximately 10 other people. Investigators relied upon video surveillance retrieved from the home of a neighbor in their homicide investigation.

The surveillance showed the initial fire being set on October 12, 2025, but it did not reveal the identification or the gender of the person setting the fire. There is no video of the fire set at the front of the residence that resulted in the deaths of the two minor children. The matter now returns to the Shreveport Police Department to continue with the investigation into the two homicides.