Imani Williams was 20 when she was killed on May 12, 2023, in New Orleans. She and a friend, Ja’Diamond Jones, were leaving a hookah lounge in the Treme neighborhood after celebrating Williams’s birthday when both women were shot; Imani was struck by multiple bullets and died at the scene. Ja’Diamond Jones also died in the same incident.

Imani was a Southern University A&M College School of Business student and worked as a hairstylist. Jones was due to graduate from a community college nursing program in a few days. The New Orleans Police Department opened a double homicide investigation and has been searching for two vehicles that may be connected to the killings; no suspects or motive have been publicly identified and the case remains under investigation.

If anyone was in the Treme area that night or has information about the vehicles seen near the hookah lounge on May 12, please come forward.