Brandon Shane Adams was 15 when he was killed in New Orleans on the evening of Friday, April 27, 2012. An eighth-grade honors student who had moved to the city a year earlier, he had gone to Sampson Park to play basketball and meet his girlfriend. After a reported verbal dispute at the park with two young men who said he was not welcome, Brandon ignored them and later walked home with his older brother, Eric. Near Montegut and Pleasure Streets, about a block from their home, two masked gunmen ambushed the brothers and opened fire. Brandon was struck multiple times, including a fatal wound to the head; Eric was shot in the back and leg but survived.

Days later Brandon’s girlfriend, Christine Domonique Marcelin, was found shot to death in a wooded area, and investigators considered the killings connected, with retaliation a central theory. Prosecutors later charged Eric Adams in connection with Christine’s murder, citing cell phone records and jailhouse informant testimony; he was acquitted of murder and kidnapping but convicted of obstruction of justice and sentenced to 20 years. The two masked gunmen who killed Brandon have not been identified or arrested.

Does anyone have information about the shooting near Montegut and Pleasure Streets or saw anything in that neighborhood on April 27, 2012?