Desean Leggett was a 23-year-old Black man who was shot dead outside the Chef Discount Market at 10833 Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans on Sunday, August 11, 2024. Surveillance footage showed that as Leggett reached for the store’s front door around 1:33 p.m., a man leaving the business, identified as Ted Breaux, raised a handgun and fired multiple times at point-blank range. Emergency responders pronounced Leggett dead at the scene. Detectives recovered six spent 9mm cartridge casings and used the store footage, witness interviews, purchase records and a phone number tied to a suspect to identify 22-year-old Ted Tezo Breaux of Luling, Louisiana as the gunman.

An arrest warrant for second-degree murder was obtained within a day. On August 16, members of the NOPD Violent Offender Warrant Squad arrested Breaux in a Kia Forte and found a Glock 17 9mm on the driver’s side floorboard; ballistics later matched that pistol to the shooting. The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office prosecuted the case and Victim-Witness Advocate Angele Crawford worked with the Leggett family. Does anyone have additional information about Leggett’s activities that afternoon or witnesses who have not been contacted?