Christian LaQuan Evans, a 24-year-old Black man from New Orleans, was killed on Friday, March 29, 2013, after gunfire cut through a Central City block at night. As the evening settled in, he was found on the porch of an abandoned house in the 2600 block of LaSalle Street, wounded by multiple gunshots. Police arrived to a scene that felt abruptly stilled—an empty porch, an empty house, and a life slipping away in front of them.
Investigators said he was discovered shortly before 9 p.m.
Lying there on the porch, he was rushed to a local hospital, but he did not survive. In the earliest hours of the case, authorities held back his identity while his family was notified, and the shooting was treated as a homicide investigation from the start.
Away from the crime scene, the public record of his life reads like the beginnings of a future interrupted: he was born on November 11, 1988, and had graduated from Sarah T. Reed High School, Class of 2007. In memorial messages that followed, people wrote of a friend who would be missed and a family they hoped would be carried through grief by faith and community, the kind of small, human notes that gather when a death leaves behind unanswered questions.
No public reports tied to this killing describe any arrests, named suspects, or formal charges connected to his death. The available coverage centers on the location, the timing, and the fact that he was found on the porch of an abandoned home—details that suggest how quickly violence can arrive and how little it sometimes leaves behind for those trying to make sense of it.
