A parking-space dispute in New Orleans turned deadly on December 28, 2015, when 24-year-old Daniel Millon was shot outside the Hidden Lake Apartments in the 7000 block of Martin Drive. Millon and a friend, Vernon Lewis, had parked their motorcycles on a walkway near the apartment of Ahmad Rainey after visiting someone at the complex. Rainey’s girlfriend, Gilda Woodridge, asked the men to move the bikes; as Millon and Lewis complied and walked downstairs, Rainey emerged from his apartment with a firearm and shot both men at close range.

Both victims were found beside their motorcycles and pronounced dead at the scene; police later confirmed neither Millon nor Lewis was armed. Woodridge surrendered and was arrested on a charge of being a principal to murder. Rainey turned himself in and was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. At trial Rainey said he acted in self-defense, believing one of the men was reaching for a gun; the murder weapon was never recovered. The jury convicted Rainey of manslaughter and obstruction of justice for Vernon Lewis’s death but acquitted him of murder and any lesser charge in Daniel Millon’s death.

If anyone knew Daniel, where he lived, worked, or spent time around Hidden Lake Apartments in 2015, please share what you remember.