Morris M. Bates Sr., 35, was fatally shot in New Orleans on Saturday, December 12, 2015. Authorities found him unresponsive just before 9 p.m. in the 3100 block of General Ogden Street near Forshey Street with a gunshot wound to the head; he died of his injuries and the death was immediately investigated as a homicide.

A lifelong New Orleans resident, Bates was remembered by friends and family as kind, sweet, caring, funny and outgoing. He was a father to eight children. Despite a thorough investigation, no arrests have been made and the case remains open and unsolved. A reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment.

If anyone remembers seeing activity in that neighborhood on the evening of December 12, 2015, or has information that could help bring Morris’s family some answers, please come forward.