Angel Mejia, 21, was found dead in the New Orleans area in June 1999, his body left near a trash bin in Kenner, Louisiana. Investigators said he had been strangled, and later reports noted marks consistent with bindings, suggesting he had been restrained before his death. Kenner police saw Mejia’s killing as similar to other recent cases: young men discovered without their shoes, bodies discarded near suburban streets and storefronts in a pattern that suggested a single perpetrator operating in the corridor.

Police linked Mejia’s death to the strangling death of Manuel Reed, found in a garbage bin weeks earlier, and to the earlier killing of 16-year-old Joseph Brown. In December 2006 a multi-agency task force arrested Ronald J. Dominique in Houma after forensic evidence tied him to some of the cases under investigation; authorities said the inquiry was ongoing and additional charges were possible. Mejia is included among the victims later attributed to Dominique.

If anyone knew Angel, his movements in June 1999, or saw anything unusual in Kenner around that time, please share what was seen or remembered.