Garelle Smith, a 29-year-old Black man, was found shot to death on Hamburg Street in Gentilly, New Orleans, on Saturday, August 13, 2011. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the head and chest, and his killing remains an unsolved homicide with no publicly identified suspects or arrests.

Smith had a long history of being linked to violent crimes. He was arrested in connection with four separate murders but was never convicted of those killings. The most prominent case connected to him was the 2003 slaying of rapper James Tapp, known as Soulja Slim; Smith was arrested and a gun in his possession reportedly matched ballistics from that case, yet the charge was dropped when witnesses would not come forward. He was also suspected in the deaths of Spencer Funk Smith Jr. and Mandell Duplessis; those charges likewise did not result in convictions. Reports note only an attempted possession of a firearm conviction.

If anyone in Gentilly or elsewhere knew Smith, witnessed his last movements on August 13, 2011, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.