On the evening of March 9, 2013, 24-year-old Dwight P. Hansberry was shot and killed inside a residence in Marrero, Louisiana. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office arrived after reports of gunfire and found Hansberry unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The same incident also claimed the life of 23-year-old Terrance Brown, making it a double homicide that stunned the local community.

Hansberry was an African American man, a product of the Jefferson Parish Public School System and the Job Corps of Texas, and a father to a son and a daughter. Family members remember him as smart, funny, hardworking, and a loving, present parent. The investigation remains open but has grown cold: no arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced, and authorities have cited a lack of concrete evidence and witness testimony as major obstacles.

Anyone who knew Dwight, Terrance, or who has information about the March 9, 2013 shootings in Marrero is urged to come forward.