For two days, Kirk Green had been consumed with fixing a persistent alternator issue on his Chevy Tahoe. The 21-year-old, a former semi-pro football player for the Louisiana Blazing Bulldogs, was underneath the hood of his vehicle behind an AutoZone on Marigny Street in New Orleans on the afternoon of Friday, February 22, 2013. He was determined to solve the problem that had been plaguing his truck.
Around 2 p.m., the sounds of routine auto repair were shattered by the eruption of
gunfire. Witnesses reported hearing as many as ten shots ring out in rapid succession, sending people in the vicinity scrambling for cover between cars and dropping to the pavement to avoid the hail of bullets. When the chaos subsided, Kirk Green was found lying next to his Tahoe in a small pool of blood. He had been shot multiple times.
Emergency services were called to the scene in the St. Roch neighborhood, but it was too late. Kirk Green, a male who had attended Lake Area Junior High School and the New Orleans Parish Adult Education Center, was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators marked the area with at least 11 evidence cones, indicating the scattered shell casings from the barrage of gunfire that had ended a young life.
In the years that have followed the violent death of Kirk Green, there have been no publicly reported arrests, and no suspects have been named in connection with his murder. The case, like many others, has left a family grieving and a community searching for answers that have not come. His death remains an unsolved homicide, a cold statistic in the city's crime records, leaving a lingering question of who was responsible for the sudden and brutal end to a young man's life over a decade ago.
