In the early hours of March 26, 2014, 32-year-old Charles ’Chee’ Meyers was found in the 11000 block of Haynes Boulevard in New Orleans East with multiple gunshot wounds. An autopsy determined he had been shot eight times; two wounds proved fatal and he died from blood loss. A 24-year-old man at the scene had a graze wound to his head.

New Orleans police identified 19-year-old Wade Reed as a suspect; Reed was arrested after citizen tips and charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and aggravated burglary. A second suspect, 20-year-old Tavis Leonard, was arrested by the Violent Offenders Warrant Squad and U.S. Marshals and charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder. A co-defendant later pleaded guilty to manslaughter, armed robbery, and attempted murder and received a forty-year sentence.

Leonard was indicted and, after a two-day trial, found guilty of Meyers’s murder and armed robbery; he received life without parole for the murder, a concurrent ninety-nine-year term for armed robbery, and an additional five years for a firearm enhancement to be served consecutively. Anyone with information about Meyers, his movements that night, or the incident is asked to come forward.