Do you know who murdered Asghar Kashanifar? Asghar Kashanifar, a 65-year-old White man from New Orleans, Louisiana, was found dead on the afternoon of October 22, 2014, inside a home in the Lakeview area, near Pontchartrain Boulevard and Harrison Avenue. Police were called to the residence for a welfare check and, once inside, discovered a man who appeared to have been fatally wounded; in the first hours after the discovery, the death was treated as a shooting investigation as detectives tried to piece together what happened behind the
closed doors of a quiet neighborhood house.
As the days unfolded, the picture turned darker and more complicated than the early reports suggested. Sources close to the investigation told local media that the victim had been stabbed, not shot, and that detectives were examining signs that he may have been beaten and tortured before he died. The scene, those sources said, hinted at an attempt to conceal what had been done—one particularly disturbing detail described his hands left in a bucket containing an “acid-like” substance, as if someone had tried to erase evidence and time itself, leaving behind only questions and shock.
Investigators indicated they did not believe the killing was random, pointing instead toward a more personal thread—an attacker who may have known the victim well enough to get close, to act without drawing attention until it was too late, and then to try to stage or disguise the aftermath. In the wake of the discovery, the case drew calls for anyone with information to come forward, with Crime Stoppers listed as a tip line as police sought leads that might explain who had been in the house with him and why.
In the publicly available reporting reviewed here, no suspects are identified by name, and no arrests, charges, trials, or convictions are described in connection with Kashanifar’s death. What remains in the record is the shifting understanding of how he died—first reported as gunfire, then recast as a stabbing with possible torture—along with the investigators’ belief that the violence was targeted, suggesting a story that began with familiarity and ended in silence.
