Jeanette Collins, a 61-year-old Black woman from New Orleans, was shot and killed on the late evening of February 24, 2020, while a passenger in a car driven by her daughter, Chandreica Marshall. Also in the vehicle were two other relatives and Collins’ 21-year-old son, DaRius Sims. At that moment Sims allegedly produced a gun and shot his mother in the chest, then fled on foot.

Sims ran nearly two miles to his home in Metairie, took a relative’s car and led police on a high-speed chase that reached speeds up to 130 mph before his vehicle struck a curb on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway and officers stopped him. He was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and has pleaded not guilty; in August 2021 a court found him mentally competent to stand trial and his defense has said he may have an undiagnosed mental illness.

Did anyone in the Harahan–Metairie area witness the shooting, the foot flight, or the high-speed chase and have information to share?