Jonathan Crawford is named in some online references as the 25-year-old Black man who was fatally shot in January 2014 in Uptown New Orleans, in the 4500 block of South Robertson Street.

Initial news coverage after the killing described the victim as unidentified and offered no motive, noting only that a body had been found late at night in a front yard on that block. The investigation remained cold for about a decade until mid-September 2024, when the NOPD Homicide Section Cold Case Unit obtained an arrest warrant charging Gordon Lewis with second-degree murder in connection with the January 2014 South Robertson Street shooting. Police said Lewis was in custody with the Louisiana Department of Corrections in DeQuincy on unrelated charges and would be extradited to Orleans Parish to face the murder charge.

Does anyone have local memories, contacts, or documents that clarify the victim’s identity in this 2014 Uptown New Orleans killing?