On the evening of September 23, 2022, 30-year-old Reginel Golman of Marrero, Louisiana, was shot dead while sitting in the front passenger seat of a vehicle at a convenience store at Fourth Street and Ames Boulevard. Earlier that day his incarcerated brother had called to warn him that someone had put a bag on the caller’s head, meaning a hit had been ordered; the brother identified 23-year-old Kintez Kutta Johnson as the person who posed the threat.

That evening Johnson had ridden in the back seat with Golman and Golman’s girlfriend. After Johnson was dropped at an apartment complex, surveillance footage and witness statements show a masked Johnson returned, approached the car, produced a semiautomatic pistol and fired. Golman was struck multiple times — ultimately 15 bullet wounds — and asked to be taken to his mother before dying in the car. The girlfriend sought help and called 911.

Detectives identified Johnson from witness testimony, store surveillance and a recorded prison call; he was located at a motel in New Orleans East and arrested. The firearm connected to the case was later recovered on October 7, 2022, in a Kenner bar.