Niukura Gonzales, 25, was shot and killed in the early hours of February 8, 2020, in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans. At about 12:25 a.m. she and another person, Angel Funez, were in the 600 block of South Pierce Street when a man wearing a hood and riding a woman’s cruiser-style bicycle approached and opened fire. Emergency crews found Funez dead at the scene; Gonzales was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died later that night.

Investigators determined the shooting resulted from a botched armed robbery. DNA recovered from one of the victims was matched in the federal CODIS database, leading police to 17-year-old Eric Cloud. A search of Cloud’s residence produced additional evidence linking him to the incident. An Orleans Parish grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging Cloud with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of armed robbery; the murder counts carry potential life terms, with parole eligibility discussed because of his age at the time, and the robbery counts carry lengthy prison exposure.

Does anyone have information about the events on South Pierce Street that night or about Niukura Gonzales’s activities in Mid-City prior to February 8, 2020?