Jakia Evans was 23 when she was shot and killed in New Orleans on Tuesday, December 9, 2014. The shooting occurred at the intersection of Dwyer and Shalimar and has been described in contemporaneous reports as a double shooting, though few details about a second victim have been released.

The motive for the attack and the events leading up to it are not publicly known. The New Orleans Police Department opened a homicide investigation and the case is listed as an open homicide with no arrests reported and no identified suspects or persons of interest.

If anyone has information about Jakia Evans, where she was that night, or about the shooting at Dwyer and Shalimar, please come forward to the New Orleans Police Department.