Dwayne Alphonse was 19 when he was killed in Algiers, New Orleans, on June 25, 2017. A student and landscaper, he was in the 3800 block of Herschel Street that summer evening when gunfire erupted. Police found him inside a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy confirmed death by gunshot wounds and the death was classified as a homicide.

Alphonse was Black / African American. His family reported that he was the fifth member lost to gun violence, heightening the tragedy for loved ones already coping with repeated loss.

Did anyone in the Algiers neighborhood in June 2017 see or hear anything that might help shed light on what happened to Dwayne Alphonse?