On Father’s Day, June 21, 2015, a shooting inside a one-bedroom apartment on Apache Drive in Harvey, Louisiana left 23-year-old Johnell Ovide dead. Ovide had been socializing with his cousin, Trammell Marshall, and two other men when three armed men—Dartanya Spottsville, Jacobie Green, and Johnell Walker—arrived uninvited. Spottsville handled Ovide’s pistol and returned it; shortly after, Spottsville opened fire, and Green and Walker also began shooting. One man escaped by jumping through a closed window. Ovide was struck three times, one bullet passing through both lungs and his heart, and was found dead or dying in the grass outside the apartment. Marshall was transported to a hospital and later died; a third victim survived with injuries.

Deputies from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office identified Dartanya Spottsville as a primary suspect; he surrendered to authorities the following day. Spottsville was convicted by a jury in September 2019; later developments led to a retrial and a subsequent conviction in September 2023 on two counts of second-degree murder, one count of attempted second-degree murder, and one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

If anyone attended that gathering or has information about who else was present that evening, please come forward.