Kevon Matthews
Kavon Matthews, 22, died on October 16, 2025, while held at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, a state prison run by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The department's yearly death data lists the death and gives the cause as an overdose. Louisiana First reported that he was one of several people who died unexpectedly at the prison that fall, and that officials gave no cause in that account. WBRZ also listed his death among several unexpected deaths at the facility, spelling his name Kevon, and gave no cause. No family statement, autopsy result or official explanation of how the overdose happened has been reported.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists the death in its yearly death data as an overdose.
Reported by: Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.