Cold Case: The 19-year-old who was killed six months before graduating high school
Six months before, in the late afternoon of November 11th, 2020, Ja’Naries Gaudia was shot, about 30 yards from his home on Ball Park Lane in Vacherie.
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''Cold Case: The 19-year-old who was killed six months before graduating high school
Six months before, in the late afternoon of November 11th, 2020, Ja’Naries Gaudia was shot, about 30 yards from his home on Ball Park Lane in Vacherie.''
ST. JAMES PARISH, La. — Chrystal Davis remembers the day when her son Ja’Naries Gaudia, 19, got his class ring. He was ready to leave high school behind.
“This is his senior ring, graduation,” said Davis holding her son’s senior ring. “He was so excited.”
Gaudia’s dream of becoming an electrician never happened, because he never made it to graduation at St. James High School''
''Six months before, in the late afternoon of November 11th, 2020, Gaudia was shot, about 30 yards from his home on Ball Park Lane in Vacherie.
“I heard two gunshots and my husband said, ‘That sounded like firecrackers.’ I told him, ‘No, that sounds like gunshots,’” Gaudia said.
Davis immediately started calling her son’s phone. He never answered. Then she got a call to get to Magnolia Park, just down the street.
“It was just unbelievable, looking at my child down there on the ground dead,” Davis said.
Gaudia was shot once in the back of the head''.
“I was extremely hopeful that because it was a 19-year-old high school student that this might be one that people would say, ‘OK, we can’t sit back and not say something,’” Martin said.
Gaudia was one of four siblings, the second oldest. His mom says he loved riding his bike and music, especially rapping. To his Godmother, he was someone you could always rely on.''
“I think we have the same problem that we see across this country. People are reluctant to get involved and help solve crimes,” Martin said. “We know we have eyewitnesses. We’re convinced of eyewitnesses, and we know that they are afraid of coming forward.”
“I miss him daily, every day,” Davis said.''
