Mel Green, 26, was shot and killed on the evening of May 15, 2022, in New Orleans East. Officers from the New Orleans Police Department’s Seventh District responded to the 5700 block of Crowder Boulevard at about 8:17 p.m. and found Green with a gunshot wound. Emergency medical services took him to a local hospital, where he later died; the Orleans Parish Coroner identified him on May 17 as Mel Green.

The NOPD Homicide Unit opened an investigation and identified a 17-year-old male as the primary suspect. An arrest warrant charging the juvenile with second-degree murder was obtained on June 7, 2022. The Violent Offender Warrant Squad located and arrested the teenager at a Gawain Drive residence in the Seventh District two days later; the arrest was made without incident and the suspect was booked into the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center.

Does anyone have information about Mel Green, his movements in New Orleans East, or the May 15 scene on Crowder Boulevard?