On the night of Thursday, September 13, 2012, police found 40-year-old Devalon Reed lying among debris in the 8900 block of Middleboro Road in eastern New Orleans with multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency responders took him to a local hospital around 11:48 p.m.; he remained critically injured and died there four days later, on Monday, September 17, 2012. The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office ruled his death the result of those gunshot wounds.

No suspects or arrests have been publicly identified in the shooting, and law enforcement has not released a motive or specifics about what led to the attack. The case remains among the city’s unsolved homicides. Anyone who knew Devalon Reed or has information about the shooting is asked to come forward.