Orlando Goines, known as Githe Goines, was found strangled to death in a vacant scrap yard in eastern New Orleans on December 29, 2011. He was 23 and the killing was recorded as the city’s 198th homicide that year. Authorities described the death as a violent homicide; investigators initially had few leads, and no suspects were publicly identified in the days after the discovery.

Goines is identified in reports as a transgender man, and that fact prompted calls for the case to be examined as a possible hate crime. Years later there have been no public announcements of arrests or breakthroughs and the case remains unresolved.

If anyone knew Orlando Goines, spent time in that part of New Orleans in late December 2011, or has information that could help, please come forward.