On the evening of June 28, 2022, officers from the New Orleans Police Department Third District responded to an aggravated battery by shooting call at about 7:27 p.m. in the 1700 block of Abundance Street. They found an unresponsive male with multiple gunshot wounds; emergency medical personnel were unable to revive him and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Two days later the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 17-year-old Deangelo Molizone, a junior at Frederick Douglass High School known as Dez to friends and family.

The NOPD Homicide Unit later developed a suspect and identified Derrick Anderson as the alleged perpetrator. An arrest warrant for second-degree murder was issued for Anderson on July 18, 2022; investigators found he was already in the Orleans Parish Justice Center on unrelated charges and he was re-booked on the homicide charge.

If anyone knew Deangelo, saw activity on Abundance Street that evening, or has information about the shooting, please come forward to the investigators handling the case.