Robert Smith, 38, was fatally shot on the morning of December 26, 2016, during a holiday visit to New Orleans. He had traveled to celebrate Christmas with family and was found with a single gunshot wound in the front yard of a residence in the 7900 block of Lamb Street in New Orleans East. Officers arrived after a report of gunfire at about 7:34 a.m.; Smith was unresponsive and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The shooting remains an open investigation. If anyone has information that could help bring answers for Smith’s family, please come forward to the New Orleans Police Department. Would anyone reading this have seen or heard anything that morning in New Orleans East?