Funeral Saturday for Patterson accidental shooting victim

Services will be held Saturday for Trevon Madise, 13, of Patterson, who died Dec. 19 after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head in what investigators say was an accidental shooting.
Visitation for Madise will be observed from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at Deep Waters Ministries in Patterson. Funeral services will begin at 11 a.m. with Muriel Brown officiating. Burial will follow in Patterson Memorial Park, according to Madise’s obituary, which appears on Page 12.
St. Mary Parish Coroner Dr. F.H. Metz said the results of Madise’s autopsy are pending.
On Dec. 18, just before midnight, a St. Mary Parish Sheriff deputy was responding to an unrelated complaint and was then flagged down by several people on Grandwood Drive in the Patterson area. They said they heard gunfire, a sheriff’s office news release said.
The deputy went to a nearby apartment and located an unresponsive 13-year-old boy with an apparent gunshot wound to the head.
The juvenile was pronounced dead by the St. Mary Parish Coroner and authorities didn’t suspect foul play. Detectives collected evidence indicating that the teen’s death was the result of an accidental shooting.
The St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office and St. Mary Parish Coroner are investigating the death.
Madise was a seventh-grader at Patterson Junior High School. Patterson Junior High Principal Suzanne Bergeron said St. Mary Parish Safe and Drug Free Schools Coordinator Gidget Everitt offered services to help students in the aftermath of Madise’s death.
Bergeron contacted the Rev. Marty Harden of Bethel Pentecostal Fellowship, which runs the school’s “Insight” program, to provide ministers for students when they come back to school. Insight is a voluntary program for students held at recess, Bergeron said.
Following Madise’s death, the Morgan City and Patterson boys’ basketball teams gathered in prayer Dec. 19 after the game at the Advance Physical Therapy Lumberjack Invitational at Patterson High.
Students also organized and held a candlelight vigil Saturday night on the Patterson High School football field after the basketball game, Bergeron said.