On an August night in 2009, 23-year-old Patrice Danille Comadore, an African American mother and former employee of the New Orleans Sheriff Department, was shot in the head and killed during a home invasion on Tricou Street in New Orleans. Two men with faces covered by bandanas forced their way into her home, announced a robbery, and demanded money while Patrice was in bed. One of the intruders was also shot at the scene.

A short distance from the home, police found 18-year-old Jessie Bibbins III with a fatal gunshot wound to the neck. Ballistics later showed the bullet that killed Bibbins was fired from the same weapon that killed Patrice, identifying him as one of the assailants. Patrice’s younger sister, Darceleen, who was present during the invasion, identified another attacker as 18-year-old Kendale Gordon. Gordon was arrested, convicted of second-degree murder in 2012 and sentenced to life in prison.

Darceleen later grew to believe she had misidentified Gordon and attempted to recant, and new evidence including DNA ultimately led to Gordon’s exoneration and release in 2021. The murder of Patrice Danille Comadore remains partially unresolved. Did anyone in the neighborhood see activity on Tricou Street the night Patrice was killed or know more about the two men who forced entry?