Shortly after midnight on Saturday, June 28, 2025, gunfire broke out in New Orleans’ Holy Cross neighborhood. Officers who arrived at the intersection of Douglass and Delery streets around 12:38 a.m. found two men critically wounded. Jesus Torres Ramirez, 44 and of Hispanic descent, was lying in the street with multiple gunshot wounds; Jose Luis Torres Ramirez, 48, was located in the backyard of a nearby property, also with multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency responders pronounced both men dead at the scene and the Orleans Parish Coroner ruled both deaths homicide by shooting.

The New Orleans Police Department opened a homicide investigation and has been collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses. As of this report no motive has been released, no suspects have been publicly identified, and no arrests have been announced. Anyone who was in the Holy Cross area the night of June 27–28 or who has information about these killings is asked to contact investigators.