On the night of October 13, 2017, New Orleans Police Officer Marcus McNeil, 30, was killed during a confrontation in New Orleans East. Shortly after midnight near Tara Lane and Lake Forest Boulevard, McNeil and three other officers approached a man they considered suspicious. McNeil located 30-year-old Darren Bridges and tried to speak with him. A struggle followed; McNeil’s Taser did not subdue Bridges, and Bridges shot McNeil multiple times. McNeil, a three-year veteran of the New Orleans Police Department, died of his injuries and was survived by his wife and two young children.

Officers shot and wounded Bridges; he fled to an apartment complex on Cindy Place, barricaded himself for several hours, then surrendered and was taken into custody. At the time of the incident Bridges was a convicted felon and was charged with first-degree murder, obstruction of justice, attempted aggravated assault on a police officer, and multiple felony narcotics offenses. Did anyone in New Orleans East see the events around Tara Lane and Lake Forest Boulevard that night or have information about what led to the confrontation?