Ashley Qualls was 25 when she was fatally shot in New Orleans on July 9, 2013. She had moved from South Carolina, graduated from Tulane University’s School of Social Work, and recently begun work at Odyssey House, a substance abuse treatment center. That night she was walking home in the Tremé neighborhood near Esplanade Avenue and North Roman Street after midnight when witnesses heard an argument between her and three people on bicycles, then gunfire. Ashley was found unresponsive on the neutral ground and did not survive.

Police treated the case as an apparent robbery-gone-wrong and the investigation received national attention when it was featured on the A&E series The First 48. The suspects were described only as three men or juveniles on bicycles; they have not been identified or arrested and no charges have been filed. The loss remains unsolved and painful for family and community.

If anyone has information about that night or remembers seeing three individuals on bicycles in the Tremé around midnight on July 9, 2013, please come forward.