On the evening of November 7, 2023, Eryn Gerard Williams, 44, was shot multiple times in the 2900 block of Louisiana Avenue in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans. Police responded to calls about 8:40 p.m.; he was taken to a local hospital and later died of his injuries. No suspects or arrests have been publicly identified and the motive remains unknown.

A native of New Orleans, Williams graduated from Redan High School in Stone Mountain, Georgia, served in the United States Navy, and attended DeVry University and Southern University. He worked as a certified pest control technician for the family business, Jerome Williams Pest Control Company, and is survived by his mother and stepfather, his father, his maternal grandmother, and an extended family of aunts, uncles, siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the New Orleans Police Department.