On the night of February 7, 2018, 37-year-old Marlon Dale Nino Brown of Abbeville was shot near his Hawthorne Street home. Officers responding just after midnight to reports of gunfire found Brown with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a hospital but died of his injuries. Witnesses reported a black Nissan Altima with tinted windows leaving the scene heading south on Hawthorne Street.

Detectives initially were unable to develop enough evidence for an arrest and the investigation went cold, leaving Brown’s family and community without answers for more than three years. In August 2021 new evidence led to arrests: Cody Guidry was charged with second-degree murder, and Travis Cooper, Nikki Hebert, and Tanesha Hills were charged with obstruction of justice. Authorities later sought Jermaine Guidry on charges of principal to second-degree murder and obstruction of justice.

Does anyone in the Abbeville area remember seeing a black Nissan Altima on Hawthorne Street that night or have information that could help?