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Jerry Devante Harris, 20, was killed in a daylight shooting in New Orleans on March 28, 2019. Police were dispatched late that afternoon to the 1500 block of Freret Street after reports of gunfire. A witness told officers she saw a silver sedan driving along Terpsichore Street and firing as it passed, and officers later found Harris lying on the ground near a vehicle located at Harmony and Prytania streets; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The witness was not physically struck.

Investigators said the shootings unfolded quickly and worked to reconstruct the route, timing, and who had been inside the sedan. In the weeks afterward police publicly identified people they wanted to question but did not announce suspects. On April 13, 2019, detectives named Demontre Smith as a person of interest and obtained a buccal DNA swab; they reported he had been located and questioned and a swab taken. On April 24, 2019, Quitman Hartford was likewise described as a person of interest and subject to a buccal warrant, with police stressing he was not currently wanted.

Does anyone who lived in the Freret or Prytania neighborhoods that day remember a silver sedan or other details that could help investigators?