On the morning of January 27, 2015, 25-year-old Jowanda Chikita Netter was found shot to death on Willow Street in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans. Known as Muff, Netter had recently been released from prison and was trying to rebuild her life through the Exodus mentoring program and occasional work gutting houses. When that work ran out she rode her bicycle to Canal Street seeking steady employment.

Days before Netter’s killing she and 28-year-old Maurice Sparkman were reportedly involved in the robbery of a dice game, and neighborhood talk said that act had made them targets for retaliation. Sparkman was found shot and killed on a second-floor balcony in the 2500 block of Dryades Street. A week after Netter’s death the New Orleans Police Department arrested Quintin Hankton and charged him with the second-degree murder of Sparkman.

Netter had turned down a friend’s offer of a ride a week before her death, saying the friend would be put in danger. Who knew about the threat to Netter, and who can fill in what happened that morning on Willow Street?