Report: LSU Football Wide Receiver, 2025 NFL Draft Hopeful Kyren Lacy Passes Away

Former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy has passed away at the age of 24, a source has confirmed to LSU Tigers On SI. Jacques Doucet of WAFB first reported the news.

Lacy, who wrapped up a stellar 2024 campaign for the LSU Tigers, was arrested earlier this year on charges related to a deadly hit-and-run crash in Lafourche Parish.

WAFB released a statement via the Louisiana State Police following the incident:

“A Louisiana State Police document contains the following allegations about the incident: As Lacy was illegally passing the other vehicles, the driver of a northbound lane pickup truck abruptly braked and swerved to the right to avoid a head-on collision with the approaching Dodge.

"Traveling behind the pickup truck was a Kia Cadenza whose driver swerved left to avoid the oncoming Dodge Charger. As the Kia Cadenza took evasive action to avoid impact with the Dodge, it crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a southbound Kia Sorrento.

"Following the crash, Lacy drove around the crash scene and fled south on LA Hwy 20 without stopping to render aid, call emergency services, or report his involvement in the crash. A passenger in the Kia Sorrento, Herman Hall of Thibodaux, was critically injured in the 10 a.m. crash and transported to a hospital where he later died, investigators said. Hall, age 78, was a former Marine.

Louisiana State Police said LSP detectives and troopers were able to determine that Lacy was driving the Dodge Charger at the time."