A dispute over a parking spot in New Orleans ended with the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Vernon Chance Lewis on December 28, 2015. Lewis and a friend, 24-year-old Daniel Millon, had parked their motorcycles in a walkway outside the Hidden Lake Apartments on Martin Drive after visiting another friend. A resident, Gilda Woodridge, asked them to move the bikes; her boyfriend, 33-year-old Ahmad Rainey, became involved in the argument.

Emergency responders found both men unresponsive beside their motorcycles; both were pronounced dead at the scene. Police said neither Lewis nor Millon were armed.

Woodridge surrendered and was booked on two counts of being a principal to first-degree murder. Rainey turned himself in and was initially charged with two counts of first-degree murder; his defense asserted self-defense while the prosecution emphasized the victims were unarmed. In April 2018 a jury found Rainey guilty of the manslaughter of Vernon Lewis and obstruction of justice, and acquitted him in the death of Daniel Millon.

If anyone knew Vernon, where he spent his time or has information about that night, please share what is known.