Eric Joseph Solomon, a 30-year-old Black man, died on September 3, 2011, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In the days that followed, loved ones gathered the pieces of what came next: arrangements made, family notified, and a community preparing to say goodbye. A funeral service was scheduled for the morning of September 17, 2011, at Israelite Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Boulevard, with visitation beginning shortly beforehand, and burial to follow at Providence Memorial Park.
Those closest to him were named in the notice like a roll call of grief and remembrance—his mother Cynthia Solomon and Shirley Sinclair; siblings Jermaine, Calvin, and Michelle, and the late Dornelle Solomon; foster siblings Junior, Yonette, Ollie, Latoya, Althea, Lezel, and Charmaine; and his children Kelly, Davonte, and Cheffen, alongside many other relatives and friends who carried their own private memories of him.
Publicly available reporting located for this synopsis does not describe the circumstances of his death, and it does not identify any suspect or suspects. No public details were found in those sources regarding arrests, charges, trials, or convictions connected to his death.
