On April 22, 2018, 38-year-old Lil Ricky Ricardo Antonio Goins was killed on Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans when another vehicle pulled alongside his car and its driver opened fire, striking Goins in the head. The head wound caused him to lose control and crash into another car. Authorities described the shooting as part of a broader, city-wide spree of violence that day.

Police identified 25-year-old Charles Williams as the other driver and later arrested him. Investigators linked Williams to a sequence of shootings, carjackings and assaults that began after he left his father’s home, including three people shot on a porch, a carjacking where a person was shot in the face, a second armed carjacking in the Upper 9th Ward, and gunfire that grazed an officer in the chest. Williams was charged with 39 offenses, including one count of second-degree murder for Goins’ death.

Goins was remembered by family as a devoted husband and father of five, a business owner who had turned his life around. Did anyone in the area see Goins that afternoon or have information about the events leading up to the shooting?