In the New Orleans 7th Ward, the evening of November 29, 2013, ended in tragedy for 37-year-old Dion Joseph Richard Sr. He was discovered lifeless in front of a church located in the 1800 block of North Robertson Street, having sustained multiple gunshot wounds in a violent altercation. Richard was an African American male.
The circumstances surrounding his death remain largely undisclosed in public records.
While one online memorial page dedicated to victims of gun violence indicates that an individual named Carlos Heard was eventually charged with the murder, official sources and other crime-tracking websites suggest that the case may still be unsolved. These sources report a lack of publicly available information regarding any arrests or the identification of suspects in connection with the shooting.
Details about the investigation into Dion Richard's death, what transpired in the moments leading up to the shooting, and a definitive resolution to the case have not been made widely available. The conflicting information leaves the narrative of his final moments and the subsequent quest for justice incomplete. Richard was a father, and his obituary remembers him as a cherished family man survived by his mother, a son, a daughter, and several siblings. His death left a void in the lives of his loved ones as the full story of that fateful night remains elusive.
