Shortly after 2:19 a.m. on October 1, 2020, New Orleans police found 39-year-old Hakeen Jones on Wall Boulevard near Cypress Acres Drive with multiple gunshot wounds. He was declared dead at the scene and the coroner’s office was expected to complete identification and an autopsy.

Initial police reporting described an aggravated battery by shooting and investigators canvassed the area and collected evidence as they worked to reconstruct what happened, with motive and who was present still unclear in the early accounts. On October 21, 2020, the New Orleans Police Department announced that Curtis Loyd had been arrested and booked on one count of second-degree murder in connection with the October 1 homicide; the announcement also noted Loyd had been arrested days earlier in an unrelated attempted murder investigation.

Does anyone have information about the moments before the shooting or about witnesses who were in that area that night?