Kevin Pig Franklin

Kevin “Pig” Franklin, a 23-year-old Black man from New Orleans, was killed in a daylight shooting in the city’s Mid-City area on December 27, 2014.

Just before 1 p.m., New Orleans police were called to a home in the 3500 block of D’Hemecourt Street, where he was found unresponsive on the front porch. Officers determined he had been shot in the head, and homicide detectives took over the scene as neighbors and first responders tried to make sense of a sudden, brutal loss that unfo ...