Nicholas Green was 22 and a student at Louisiana Tech University when he was fatally shot inside his East Texas Avenue apartment in Ruston on the final night of 2016. Known to friends and family as Nikko and due to graduate in 2017, he was found with a fatal gunshot wound; three other people were present in the apartment that night. Neighbors initially heard what they thought were New Year’s Eve fireworks before police and ambulances arrived.

The case went cold for years with no publicly identified suspects and no arrests, leaving family and the community without answers. In January 2026 Ruston police arrested 29-year-old Brandi Raney Franklin of Opelousas in connection with Green’s death. Officers say she was one of the three people who were in the apartment that night; she was charged with negligent homicide and obstruction of justice and was initially booked on outstanding warrants for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Does anyone have information about Nicholas, his circle at Louisiana Tech, or the events that night that could help fill in what happened?