Percy Baytop Jr., 41, was found dead in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2025 in a downtown New Orleans parking garage. He was discovered shortly before 2 a.m. outside his red Toyota Camry in the Caesar’s Casino garage on the 600 block of Convention Center Boulevard with a fatal gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. The New Orleans Police Department treated the killing as a homicide and said it was unrelated to the large-scale incidents unfolding elsewhere in the city that night.

The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office later publicly identified Baytop as the victim. Authorities later arrested 53-year-old Sean Black in connection with the death, and the investigation into the circumstances and any relationship between Baytop and Black remains active.

Did anyone in New Orleans see Baytop that night or have information about his activities near the Convention Center garage?