On the morning of January 10, 2019, at about 10:13 a.m., Michael Richard, a 32-year-old Black man, was shot and killed while sitting in his vehicle in the 4400 block of Evangeline Street near Beechwood Drive in Baton Rouge’s Delmont Place neighborhood. Officers from the Baton Rouge Police Department found him inside the car; the Violent Crimes Unit led the investigation.

Michael Tyrone Richard Sr., a native of Baton Rouge, was remembered by family as a husband to Jessica Richard and a father to three children: Mila Richard, Jade Green, and Michael Richard, Jr. His extended family included his mother Linda Richard-Roseburr, father Micheal Murray, grandmother Luviller Richard, and sister Irvinika Richard. A service was held at Winnfield Funeral Home and he was laid to rest at Winnfield Memorial Park.

Detectives canvassed the area and sought witnesses, but announced early on that there were no known suspects or clear motive. The case has since gone cold with no public arrests or major breakthroughs and remains one of many unresolved homicides in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Did anyone in Delmont Place that morning see or hear anything that could help identify who fired the shots?