Joseph Esposito, a 29-year-old Hispanic man, was shot on August 1, 2017, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Officers were sent just before 6 p.m. to the 1000 block of Tupelo Street on a report of an aggravated battery by shooting. Paramedics transported Esposito to an area hospital, where he died of his injuries.

Investigators later linked a second victim to the same incident; that person went to a hospital by private vehicle for gunshot wounds. In the days after the shooting, homicide detectives identified a suspect and on August 11, 2017 obtained a warrant for Errol Roberts, charging him with second degree murder and aggravated battery, though Roberts was not in custody at that time.

Family members remembered Esposito, called Lil Joey in his obituary, as someone who stepped forward to help others and said he was killed while defending friends during a reported home invasion. Does anyone have information about that night on Tupelo Street or recall seeing activity in the area that evening?