A man was killed in New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood on November 5, 2023. Melvin Alberto Rodriguez Manueles, 35, was fatally wounded in a shooting on the 2600 block of First Street. The incident left neighbors and the local community seeking answers.

Police investigators identified a suspect and obtained an arrest warrant for 24-year-old Jose Gabriel Gamboa-Escobar. On January 3, 2024, the U.S. Marshals New Orleans Task Force arrested Gamboa-Escobar, and he was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center. He faces one count of second-degree murder in connection with Rodriguez Manueles’s death.

Did anyone in Central City witness the shooting or see activity on First Street that night?