Bevan Jones, a 49-year-old Black man and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, was found unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene on the morning of July 21, 2022, near the intersection of Bodenger Boulevard and Semmes Street in New Orleans.

Jones was born in New Orleans on November 2, 1972, later lived in Gretna and graduated from West Jefferson High School. The community remembers him for family, faith, and service; the official record currently leaves the person or people responsible unnamed.

If anyone has information about what happened at Bodenger Boulevard and Semmes Street on July 21, 2022, please come forward to share what is known.