On the evening of November 20, 2013, two men were killed inside a residence on Lafaye Street in New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood. Twenty-one-year-old Verdell Lewis was found inside the home with multiple gunshot wounds. Twenty-two-year-old Kerry Pierre was also shot in the head; he was alive when emergency personnel arrived but later died at a local hospital.

New Orleans police later identified and arrested a suspect. In February 2014 the Violent Offenders Warrant Squad apprehended Robert Garrett, who was charged with two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Lewis and Pierre. Investigators also took two other people into custody at the scene, including Kerry Pierre’s brother, Isaac Pierre; no public details about charges against them have been reported.

Lewis and Pierre were reported as persons of interest in a separate double homicide that occurred about a week earlier, in which a father and his infant son were shot, suggesting a possible link between the cases. Does anyone have information about Verdell Lewis, his activities in Gentilly, or what happened that night on Lafaye Street?