On the night of April 11, 2013, 35-year-old Sheico Delbar, a Black man originally from Ethiopia, was shot multiple times in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans just after 1 a.m. Delbar, a taxi driver who had lived in the city about five years and supported a wife and two young children back home, had just finished his shift with American Taxi and was driving without passengers when the attack occurred. His cab crashed into a tree in the 900 block of North Johnson Street; police found him in the vehicle and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Orleans Parish Coroner ruled the death a homicide from gunshot wounds.

Friends and colleagues remembered Delbar as hardworking and devoted to his family; he had bought a plane ticket to visit them after Jazz Fest and was arranging for them to join him in New Orleans. The taxi’s security camera footage was turned over to homicide detectives, but no arrests or public identifications of suspects have been reported. Does anyone have information that could help bring answers in this case?