Seventeen-year-old McDonogh 35 High School student Rontrell Henry was shot and killed on the evening of Tuesday, August 6, 2019, in New Orleans East. The shooting took place in the 8500 block of the North I-10 Service Road just before 9:30 p.m., when officers found two male teenagers with gunshot wounds. Both were taken to a local hospital; Henry later died there and the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office attributed his death to a gunshot wound.

Police had not publicly identified any suspects or a motive at the time of the report, and the investigation was described as ongoing. If anyone witnessed the shooting on the North I-10 Service Road or has information about what happened that night, please come forward.