Terrey Williams, a 27-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Louisiana, died on Sunday, August 21, 2016.
That evening in Algiers, the calm of a late-summer Sunday broke when gunfire drew officers to the 3300 block of De Armas Street. Police were notified of the shooting shortly before 7 p.m., and investigators determined that one man had been shot and killed.
In the first wave of public updates, authorities did not release the victim’s name, offering few details beyond the location and the fact that the case was under investigation.
The killing was described as the third shooting in Algiers that day, a grim sequence that left residents measuring their hours by sirens and scattered reports. While police acknowledged two additional men had been shot earlier in the 2000 block of Cypress Acres Drive, the homicide on De Armas stood apart—final, irreversible, and at that moment still officially unnamed to the public.
In the days that followed, family notices and funeral home information identified Terrey Williams as the man who died that Sunday. Public obituary and service details described him as a New Orleans native and confirmed the date of death as August 21, 2016.
In the sources available, no arrest, suspect name, or formal charging announcement is reported in connection with the August 21, 2016 shooting death. The initial police-facing account in local news notes that additional details were not released at the time, and later public-facing notices reviewed here focus on his passing rather than investigative outcomes.
