Late on Thanksgiving night, November 25, 2021, 17-year-old Brian Anthony Damans Travis, a student at Sophie B. Wright Charter School, was found fatally shot inside a vehicle in the 5900 block of Tullis Drive in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. A second young man in the vehicle was also shot and both victims were pronounced dead at the scene after police arrived around 11:23 p.m.

The New Orleans Police Department’s homicide unit opened an investigation and initially appealed for public tips. For a long period there were no publicly announced suspects or arrests, leaving the case unresolved for the victims’ families and the community. On December 1, 2023, Cold Case detectives named a person of interest, Travis Mitchell, releasing his photo and asking to locate and interview him; he is not charged in the case. The investigation into Brian Travis and the other juvenile victim remains open.

If anyone knew Brian, the other victim, or has information about that night or about Travis Mitchell’s whereabouts, please share what is known with detectives.