Dwan Carson, 27, was found fatally shot in the early morning of May 13, 2022, beside a four-door Dodge in the yard of a boarded-up brick house on the 4200 block of North Prieur Street in the St. Claude neighborhood of New Orleans. Police were called about the shooting at about 7:45 a.m. at the intersection of France and North Prieur streets.

The area has been described as largely deserted since Hurricane Katrina, and Carson’s death was one of two fatal shootings in St. Claude within three days, a spike noted amid a rising citywide homicide rate at the time. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced and the New Orleans Police Department’s investigation remains ongoing.

Very little is known about what led to the shooting; anyone with information about Carson or the scene is asked to contact investigators.