Victor Odds

Victor “ASAP” Odds, a 22-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Louisiana, was killed in the first minutes after midnight on September 10, 2012, when gunfire erupted at the intersection of Music and Urquhart Streets in the city’s 8th Ward. The way the night is remembered in public case summaries is stark and unadorned: he was shot multiple times at that corner, and the shooting proved fatal.

In the aftermath, the case settled into the long, heavy quiet that surrounds an unsolved homi ...