Corey Carter, 46, a Black man, was shot during a late-December night in New Orleans, Louisiana, when gunfire erupted in the 2700 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive/Boulevard in Central City. Police responding around 8:00 p.m. found two adult men wounded by bullets; Carter was unresponsive and was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other victim was taken by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment.
Days later, the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office formally identified Carter and determined he died from a gunshot wound.
In the weeks after the killing, the case moved in fits and starts, shaped by fragments of information and the need for witnesses. Investigators publicly asked for help locating Issac Sabatier, describing him as a person of interest they wanted to interview about the shooting. The request suggested detectives believed he could shed light on what happened on that block—who was there, what led up to the shots, and how the gunman got away—while the city’s tip lines remained open for anyone who had seen or heard something that night.
By early February, police announced the investigation had shifted from searching for answers to acting on them. The New Orleans Police Department’s Violent Offender Warrant Squad, working with the U.S. Marshals, arrested Kentrell Williams in connection with the homicide. Detectives said they had developed and positively identified Williams as the perpetrator, obtained an arrest warrant, and booked him into the Orleans Parish Justice Center on one count of second-degree murder. Public statements emphasized that the charge was part of an ongoing criminal process and that guilt would be determined in court, not in a press release.
Beyond the arrest and charge announcement, the publicly available updates located in these sources focus on the shooting’s basic timeline, the presence of a second wounded victim, and the steps police described in identifying and taking Williams into custody. No additional official case outcome—such as trial dates, a plea, or a conviction—appears in the referenced updates here.
