Caleb ONeal Johnson was 18 and a senior at Edna Karr High School, planning to join the U.S. Navy after graduation. A football player who had stood on the homecoming court his junior year, he was killed on March 28, 2021, in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. Johnson was in a vehicle at the Cypress Run Apartments with his 25-year-old stepsister, Breyiana Brown, and his girlfriend when police say a man opened fire; both Johnson and Brown were killed and the girlfriend was wounded and survived.

Investigators arrested 21-year-old Hollis Carter after what police reported was a confession; Carter was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder and released on bond. Carter was shot and killed on March 23, 2022, while traveling to a pretrial hearing, and surveillance led police to a Ford F-150 registered to Bokio B. Johnson, Caleb’s 46-year-old father. Bokio Johnson was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder; by June 2024 his trial was reported to be underway with testimony about possible retaliatory violence.

What does anyone who knew Caleb, Breyiana, or the family remember about their lives or about that night at Cypress Run Apartments?