A dispute between families in New Orleans escalated into a fatal act of retribution that ended the life of Alfred Johnson IV. The 23-year-old was shot during a violent confrontation in the parking lot of a drugstore on Gentilly Boulevard in April 2018. He later crashed his car near Gentilly Boulevard and Elysian Fields Avenue while attempting to flee and died at a local hospital from his injuries.

The violence followed an argument the previous day between Johnson and his girlfriend. Her father, Christopher Patterson, believed Johnson had assaulted her; Patterson, along with Gerald Barnes and a cousin, went looking for Johnson. Investigators say the confrontation turned into a gun battle in which Barnes fired the fatal shot from a car driven by Patterson, while Johnson apparently shot the cousin multiple times.

Both Gerald Barnes, 29, and Christopher Patterson, 48, were later indicted in what prosecutors described as a retribution killing; bond for each was set at $400,000. Does anyone have information about Johnson’s final movements that night or witnessed the parking lot shooting?