Shawn Hubbard, a 39-year-old White male known also as Smurf or Goblin, was found fatally shot on the evening of October 21, 2023, in the 1000 block of North Peters Street in New Orleans. Police arrived about 9:01 p.m. after a report of a man down and discovered Hubbard on a walkway with gunshot injuries; emergency medical technicians could not save him and he was pronounced dead. The Orleans Parish Coroner identified him two days later and attributed his death to those gunshot wounds.

New Orleans Police Department Homicide Section detectives later identified Donald Delaune as the alleged perpetrator and obtained an arrest warrant charging him with second-degree murder. Delaune was located and arrested on the morning of November 29, 2023, in the 1000 block of North Claiborne Avenue and booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center; at the time of that arrest he was also booked on 20 outstanding warrants for multiple business burglaries across the city.

Hubbard had prior contact with law enforcement: in April 2022 he was identified as a suspect in an aggravated battery by cutting and an arrest warrant was issued accusing him of attempted second-degree murder for allegedly stabbing a person after a verbal dispute near Governor Nicholls Street and French Market Place. It is unclear whether he was ever apprehended on that warrant before his death.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything on North Peters Street the night Hubbard was shot?