On the evening of June 21, 2022, 29-year-old Byron Laird was found in the 7000 block of Lawrence Road in the Little Woods area of New Orleans with multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency Medical Services responded but he was pronounced dead.

The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office later identified Laird and confirmed the cause of death as gunshot wounds. Homicide Detective Brittany Kimbrough was assigned to the investigation.

The shooting occurred amid a wave of violence in the neighborhood; two other men had been fatally shot in the preceding 12 hours.