Milton Davis, a 22-year-old Black man from New Orleans, was killed in a burst of gunfire on Sunday, August 14, 2011, in Central City near Martin Luther King Boulevard and South Robertson Street. He was found dead near the side of a double house; the autopsy counted four gunshot wounds, two fatal. Three other men were shot and taken to a hospital, and spent casings from multiple calibers littered the scene.

Initial canvassing and witness interviews produced little cooperation because people feared retaliation, and the case stalled until 2013 when a witness, Passion Cobbins, volunteered information while being interviewed in an unrelated homicide. Cobbins and her cousin Cash Cobbins later identified Demond Sandifer, known as Lil D, in double-blind photo lineups; she described Sandifer exiting a black car dressed in black and firing a black gun before returning to the passenger seat. Investigators tied the killing to local gang conflict and to phone, jail-call, and social-media evidence.

On May 8, 2013, Sandifer was indicted for second-degree murder committed in furtherance of gang activity, pleaded not guilty, and after an August 2014 jury trial was found guilty. A life sentence without benefit of parole was imposed, with an additional consecutive gang-enhancement term; an appeal later affirmed the verdict but found a sentencing error and sent the case back for re-sentencing. Does anyone have information about Milton Davis, the people who were with him that night, or the neighborhood’s dynamics in 2011?