Tyniell “Tiny” Trenece Carter was a Black woman, age 21, from New Orleans. In mid-January 2011, her name entered public record in two different ways: first through a homicide entry tied to an incident location in the 5100 block of North Rampart Street, and then through a published death notice that placed her passing two days later, on Saturday, January 15, 2011.
According to the Project: Cold Case database entry associated with the New Orleans Police Department, the case was categorized as murder, marked unsolved, and listed with an “Unknown” cause and an “Unknown” suspect. The entry’s “Date Reported” was January 13, 2011, and it anchored the incident to 5100 N Rampart St in New Orleans in Orleans Parish. No suspect name, no description, and no arrest information appeared in that listing—only the blunt outline of a life taken and an investigation still left open.
Her obituary, published through The Times-Picayune’s obituary service, portrayed the person behind the case number: she worked for Bayside Healthcare, was remembered as the mother of Tyrese Carter, and was survived by close family including her mother Wanda Carter and her father Lionel Garrett, along with siblings and extended relatives named in the notice. The obituary stated she “entered into eternal rest” on January 15, 2011, a phrasing that offered grief and remembrance rather than details of violence.
Across the available online sources, the public trail stops there: an unsolved homicide record with no listed suspect and no listed arrests, and a family’s farewell that does not describe what happened on North Rampart Street. The investigation authority identified in the cold-case entry was the New Orleans Police Department, and the case remained recorded as unsolved with the suspect field still “Unknown,” indicating that—at least within the information published in that database—no arrest had been reported as closing the case.
