Cornelius Mickey Smith was 17 and a senior at International High School when he was killed in New Orleans in September 2019. Described as an honor roll student who loved sports and planned to play basketball and go to college, Cornelius was a passenger in a car with seven others when a second vehicle pulled alongside and opened fire. Cornelius died of his wounds and five other occupants were injured.

Investigators later identified 18-year-old Dijon Dixon as the driver of the vehicle from which shots were fired. In August 2020 a grand jury returned an indictment charging Dixon with one count of second-degree murder in Cornelius’s death and seven counts of attempted second-degree murder for the injured passengers. Authorities say a second person in the shooter’s car also fired, but that person had not been publicly identified.

If anyone knew Cornelius, was with him that morning, or saw the vehicles involved, please share what you remember.