Eddie Mason Jr.

Eddie Mason Jr. was a 17-year-old young man from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, whose life was rooted in his community. Public records and contemporary news coverage identify him by name and age and place him on Bradley Street in Baton Rouge in July 2016. While formal, family-published memorials or a full obituary matching the published date are not available in the public record, the facts that are documented speak to a life lived at the center of a neighborhood and a family.

Eddie was at an age of transition and possibility, the kind of age when friends, school, and family shape the path ahead. Local news outlets reported his death on July 20, 2016, noting the shooting occurred the previous evening, July 19, 2016. Those reports make clear that Eddie was known to his neighbors and that his loss was felt immediately by people nearby who called for help and by the larger Baton Rouge community following the tragedy.

Because no family-authored obituary matching the exact date is publicly available, many personal details about Eddie’s hobbies, schooling, or close relationships remain private or unpublished. That absence in public records should not be read as absence of meaning: even with limited public details, Eddie’s life mattered to family, friends, and neighbors who remember him beyond headlines. The record that does exist shows a young life cut short in a city that, like many, holds neighborhoods where families and young people build daily rhythms and hopes for the future.

This remembrance honors Eddie as a person first — a son, a neighbor, a young man with the full potential of his years. For those seeking to pay respects or learn more, local funeral home, cemetery, or family notices (when and if they are made public) may provide fuller, family-approved remembrances. Until then, this page preserves the dignity of Eddie’s name and the fact that his life mattered to those who knew him.