Comeese Arthur Mimitte, a 20-year-old man from New Orleans, Louisiana, died on February 19, 2010, leaving behind a young child and a family suddenly forced into grief. In the days that followed, loved ones gathered to mourn him, remembering him not as a headline but as a son, a brother, and a father whose life ended far too early.
Years later, his death surfaced in a far larger criminal narrative that authorities said was fueled by street-gang violence in the Uptown area.
A sweeping racketeering case brought by prosecutors alleged that on or about February 19, 2010, Joshua Pittman along with three unindicted co-conspirators identified only by initials, took part in a murder in the 2700 block of Chippewa Street. The victim in that allegation was named only by initials in the court document, but the date, place, and surrounding reporting align with the day Comeese Mimitte died, tying his loss to the violent pattern investigators said they were trying to dismantle.
In May 2013, Pittman was among a group of alleged 110’ers gang members named in what city leaders described as one of the most expansive street-gang indictments New Orleans had seen, a case that bundled drug dealing, gun crimes, and multiple killings into a single racketeering framework. After the indictment was announced, Pittman was reported as one of the remaining defendants not yet in custody; police later said he surrendered. The prosecution described several killings as acts carried out to advance the gang’s enterprise, placing Comeese Mimitte’s death within a broader claim of organized retaliation and control.
Even with arrests and court appearances, the legal process did not move quickly. Reports at the time described the case bogging down as the court worked through basic requirements of representation, with hearings held while some defendants still lacked attorneys, delaying the path toward trial. Publicly available reporting does not clearly show a final resolution specifically for the killing tied to February 19, 2010, and the people listed as unindicted co-conspirators in that allegation were not publicly identified by name in the documents referenced.
