Myrtis ’M.B.’ Bickham was a 76-year-old man from New Orleans whose life ended in a targeted shooting outside a home on Ursuline Street on the night of October 27, 2003. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. rifle fire erupted outside 2324 Ursuline Street, striking Bickham and a relative, Roosevelt Brown Jr. Reports say Bickham suffered wounds to his head and torso and was pronounced dead at the scene; Brown was also hit in the head and torso, taken to the Medical Center of Louisiana, and died hours later.

Investigators described the attack as an ambush and publicly linked the killings to a wider chain of retaliation tied to the April 14, 2003 shooting at John McDonogh High School, in which Jonathan Caveman Williams was killed. Although suspects in the April shooting were already in custody, detectives believed associates were continuing to settle scores and that the Ursuline Street attack was part of that fallout. Bickham’s obituary noted family mourners gathered at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church before his burial at Providence Memorial Park.

Did anyone in the neighborhood or family have information about who might have carried out the attack?