On the evening of January 27, 2024, 42-year-old Cody D. Abbott was shot and killed in New Orleans East. Police were called about gunfire around 7:44 p.m. in the 14,000 block of Chef Menteur Highway; officers found Abbott with multiple gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office later confirmed his identity.

Abbott, a Black man known by the nicknames Mayhem and Monsta Co, worked as a rapper and had attended Sarah Towels Reed High School. Friends and family remember him as protective, energetic, and the life of the party. He was a father to eight children; a funeral service was held for him on February 4, 2024, at New Light Baptist Church in Evergreen, Louisiana.

In the weeks after the shooting, detectives identified a 20-year-old named Robert Aguillard as the alleged perpetrator; an arrest warrant for second-degree murder was issued on February 20, 2024, and he was arrested and booked the next day. If anyone knew Cody or has information about the shooting, please come forward.