Courtney Antonio “Big Boi” Pittman, a 27-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Louisiana, died on Saturday, September 29, 2012.
In the days after his death, his family prepared to gather the people who knew him best—relatives, friends, and those who had shared ordinary moments with him that suddenly felt precious. A funeral service was scheduled for Saturday, October 6, 2012, at Estelle J. Wilson Funeral Home on Danneel Street, with visitation that morning before the service began.
Publicly available notices tied to his death do not describe the circumstances that led to it, and they do not name a suspect, outline an investigation, or indicate whether his death was being treated as a homicide.
Within the same publicly available sources reviewed, there is no documentation of arrests, formal charges, trials, or convictions connected to his death.