On the evening of Sunday, April 10, 2016, 31-year-old Bryant Keith Brastfield was found dead on the grass beneath an I-10 overpass in New Orleans. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene; his injuries were so severe he was initially identified by a neck tattoo. Bryant was a lifelong New Orleans resident, a father of two, attended Carter G. Woodson High School, and belonged to The Golden Era Indians and the Young Men Olympian Social Aid and Pleasure Club. His father died when Bryant was ten.

Investigators developed the case from a witness who saw the suspect discard a shirt in a dumpster. Officers recovered a cracked LG cellphone, a Glock handgun with an extended 22-round magazine, and an Old Navy shirt with a bloodstain. That blood was linked by DNA to a man named Larry Reed, and on November 21, 2017, the New Orleans Police Department publicly named Reed as a suspect and said they were searching for him. Reed was later apprehended and was awaiting trial for his alleged role in Brastfield’s killing.

If anyone knew Bryant, saw him the night of April 10, 2016, or has information about the events under the I-10 overpass, please come forward.