On the evening of April 23, 2013, 22-year-old Desmond O’neal Bell was sitting on a porch in the 4000 block of Baudin Street in Mid-City, New Orleans, when two hooded assailants opened fire. Bell and a 26-year-old companion, Orlando Rickmon, were both killed. An 8-year-old child playing nearby was struck by a stray bullet and critically injured.

The killings occurred amid an active feud between rival groups in the city. Investigators linked the attack to a cycle of retaliatory violence; Rickmon had survived a shooting two months earlier, and suspicions focused on a man identified as Isaac Ike Jones, who was believed to be seeking vengeance for his father’s murder and thought to suspect Rickmon of ties to a rival crew known as the Mid-City Killers. Reports tie Jones to the plot that produced the porch shooting.

Does anyone who lived in Mid-City at the time recall unusual activity on Baudin Street that night or have information about the feud between these groups?