Louis Peretta

Louis Perrette, 23, a Black man from New Orleans, Louisiana, was found dead on September 14, 2016, after a burning vehicle drew first responders to the 8700 block of Morrison Road in New Orleans East. Late that afternoon, firefighters and police converged on the scene expecting a vehicle fire, but the discovery inside changed everything: a man’s body in the car, the situation immediately treated as a homicide instead of an accident or routine blaze.

As investigators worked the area, det ...