On the evening of March 24, 2013, two people were killed in Gert Town, New Orleans. At about 8:30 p.m. police were called to the 3500 block of Audubon Court, where 19-year-old Gregory Hills, the stepson of Lawrence James Brown, was found fatally shot in the street. A short time later, a few blocks away at Broadway Street and Washington Avenue, 53-year-old Lawrence James Brown, known as Son, was found in his red pickup truck after it had crashed into a business. Brown had suffered several gunshot wounds and investigators believe he was shot and then tried to drive away before losing consciousness and crashing. Brown was a father to seven children and remembered as a cook, handyman and community leader. No arrests have been announced and the killings remain unsolved.

If anyone has information about either death or remembers activity in Gert Town that night, please come forward.