Eddie Matthews, 64, was found with multiple gunshot wounds at the corner of South Liberty Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in New Orleans at about 10:00 p.m. on January 6, 2024. Surveillance footage captured the scene and the New Orleans Police Department treated the killing as a homicide.

Matthews, known as Keebler, had worked as a mechanic and in various other trades before becoming homeless after his wife’s death. Those who knew him described him as loving and positive; police called the killing senseless. Detectives linked Matthews’s death by ballistics to another shooting less than a mile away that occurred about four hours earlier, in which a woman, Cayla Kelley, was also killed.

Investigators identified a suspect, Earl Simmons, and obtained an arrest warrant charging him with two counts of homicide. The motive for Matthews’s killing has not been explained. If anyone has information about Eddie Matthews, his last movements that night, or the shootings, please share what you know.