Do you know who killed Chris Parish? Chris Parish, 24, was a Black man from New Orleans, Louisiana, and on the early evening of June 5, 2014, his life ended in violence in the city’s Mid-City area. The time attached to the homicide record places the killing at about 6:30 p.m., and the address tied to the case points to 2748 Cleveland Avenue, a quiet-sounding spot that became the center of a police investigation.
According to publicly posted accounts tied to that address, the discovery came when a resident returned home
and found a body in the backyard. Police were notified, and investigators responded to the scene, where it quickly became clear the victim had been shot multiple times. The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office later identified the man as Chris Parish, turning what might have begun as a baffling and grim discovery into a named loss with a timeline, a location, and a case file.
The homicide appears in a 2014 New Orleans Homicide Division list under incident number F-06420-14, associated with the First District, with the case marked as open. The same listing reflects that the investigation was assigned to a detective identified as Morrison, and it does not show any suspect in custody connected to Parish’s death as of the document’s last update.
In the absence of public charging documents or a reported court track tied to this specific killing, the available record reads like many unresolved shootings: a pinpointed place, a narrow window of time, and a violent method, but no official narrative of how Parish’s final moments unfolded or why he was targeted. What remains publicly visible is the stark outline—multiple gunshots, a backyard, and a case that, at least in the materials available online, did not culminate in an arrest announcement.
No suspects, arrests, charges, trials, or convictions are identified in the publicly available homicide listing connected to Chris Parish’s death, and no named perpetrator is attached to the case in the sources that can be accessed without restricted archives. The result is a story that ends where investigators began: with the unanswered questions lingering at 2748 Cleveland Avenue, and a file left open for the day someone finally fills in the missing names and the missing motive.
