Brandon Shane Adams was 15 when he was ambushed and killed while walking home in New Orleans on the evening of April 27, 2012. An eighth-grade honors student at KIPP Believe College Prep, he loved sports and cooking and was described by family as happy-go-lucky. After a minor confrontation at Sampson Park earlier that night, Brandon and his older brother, Eric, were shot near Montegut and Pleasure streets by two masked men; Eric survived gunshot wounds to his back and leg, while Brandon suffered multiple wounds including a fatal shot to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Three days later Brandon’s girlfriend, 15-year-old Christine Domonique Marcelin, was found shot to death on April 30; investigators believed the two killings were connected. Eric Adams was later charged in Christine’s death but acquitted at trial of kidnapping and murder; he was convicted of obstruction for giving police the wrong cell phone and sentenced to twenty years hard labor. The two masked shooters who killed Brandon have not been identified or brought to justice. Anyone with information about that April night or the shooters is asked to come forward.