In the summer of 2017 New Orleans suffered a tragic child homicide. Three-month-old Kasey De’Shawn Munoz was found unresponsive by his mother on August 25, 2017, in the Lower 9th Ward. The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office later ruled the death a homicide, listing blunt force injuries as the cause.

A funeral service was held September 9, 2017, at Professional Funeral Services on North Claiborne Avenue, and Kasey was interred at Resthaven Memorial Park. Public reports in the months after the death said the New Orleans Police Department had not named suspects or identified a motive and that the investigation remained ongoing.

If anyone in the Lower 9th Ward at the time has information about what happened to Kasey, please come forward to share what you know.