Earl Ellsworth III, a 23-year-old Black man, was killed on the evening of August 25, 2022, in a Metairie apartment. Earlier that day a separate physical fight had taken place in Marrero involving the girlfriend and mother of a man named Ronald Newton; Ellsworth had been a bystander who recorded that altercation on his phone. He forced entry around 7:30 p.m., confronted people who hid in a bathroom, kicked the bathroom door down and fired a single shot from a Glock 9mm semiautomatic pistol that struck Ellsworth in the chest. Ellsworth died at the scene while attempting to load a pistol to defend himself and his friends.

Law enforcement identified Ronald Newton as the primary suspect within hours, and a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force arrested him on August 30, 2022, at a hotel in New Orleans. Newton was charged with first-degree murder. Does anyone have information about Ellsworth, where he lived or spent time in Metairie, or who might have witnessed the events that night?