On September 17, 2023, Nelson Harry, 32, was found unresponsive inside a vehicle in the 3700 block of Garden Oaks Drive in New Orleans after officers from the Fourth District responded to a reported shooting at about 12:03 p.m. Medical personnel pronounced Harry dead at the scene. Two days later the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office identified him and listed the preliminary cause of death as gunshot wounds.

Detectives from the NOPD Homicide Section treated the case as a homicide and identified a suspect, Teddy Allen. An arrest warrant charging Allen with one count of second-degree murder was obtained; he was already in custody at the Orleans Parish Justice Center on an unrelated matter and was re-booked on the new charge.

Does anyone have information about Nelson’s movements that afternoon or about the area around Garden Oaks Drive?