Travis St. Tell Arnold, 30, was killed in New Orleans on February 24, 2010. A lifelong city resident and Joseph S. Clark Sr. High School graduate, he worked for the Municipal Yacht Harbor and Veolia Industrial Services and left behind a wife and eight children, five daughters and three sons.

Federal prosecutors later linked his killing to the 8th Ward gang Ride or Die (R.O.D.), alleging his murder was carried out in furtherance of a racketeering enterprise. A 20-count federal indictment against twelve alleged gang members named Byron Jones, known as Big Baby, and Sidney Patterson in connection with Arnold’s death as part of a broader drug and violence conspiracy. At trial a witness, Darryl Arnold, identified Travis as his uncle and testified that Byron Jones had threatened to kill Travis.