Toby Roche was 24 when he was shot and killed in a busy New Orleans parking lot on the evening of May 13, 2015. Gunfire broke out outside Melba’s restaurant in the St. Roch neighborhood; Roche sustained multiple gunshot wounds, including two bullets to his back that caused catastrophic damage to vital organs. Emergency services responded but Roche died; an autopsy the next day ruled his death a homicide. Another person was wounded but survived.

New Orleans police, stationed a block away, arrived quickly and detained 26-year-old Jacob Love about ten minutes after the shooting. Love admitted his involvement and identified Janero McBride as the second shooter. Warrants were issued and McBride was arrested and charged alongside Love. A grand jury indicted both men in August 2015 on second-degree murder for Roche and two counts of attempted second-degree murder for the other victims. Love later entered a plea agreement with the state; at McBride’s trial Love testified against him and the jury convicted McBride on all counts. In June 2017, 25-year-old Janero McBride received life without parole for Roche’s murder, plus concurrent thirty-year terms for the attempted murders.

Did anyone who knew Toby or witnessed the shooting ever hear or see something that hasn’t been shared publicly?