Herbert Thomas Tennessee was an 18-year-old student at L.B. Landry/O.P. Walker College & Career Preparatory High School who died after being shot in a reported drive-by shooting on Wednesday, April 29, 2015. The shooting happened in the Irish Channel neighborhood of New Orleans, in front of a residence in the Lower Garden District. He was taken to a hospital with a head wound and later succumbed to his injuries; investigators reclassified the case from aggravated battery by shooting to homicide after his death.

Three individuals were arrested in connection with the incident and were booked on second-degree murder charges after Tennessee died. He is survived by his parents, Roshurn Tennessee and Herbert Scott, his grandmother, sisters, and other relatives and friends.

If anyone knew Herbert or has information about the shooting, please come forward with any details that could help the investigation.