James Worthy, a 74-year-old male, was killed late on January 15, 2022, in New Orleans, Louisiana, when gunfire cut through the quiet of the Little Woods area in New Orleans East. Just after 11 p.m., officers were sent to the 6200 block of Curran Road/Curran Boulevard on reports that someone had been shot. When they arrived, they found Worthy suffering from at least one gunshot wound, and emergency medical crews pronounced him dead at the scene.
In the first hours after the shooting, authorities released only the bare outline of what happened: a man in his seventies struck by gunfire, discovered outdoors, with detectives beginning the careful work of tracking down witnesses and reconstructing the final minutes. The killing was reported the same night as another fatal shooting elsewhere in the city, but police indicated the two incidents were not connected—two separate stories unfolding within minutes of each other.
As the initial shock settled, the victim’s name became public through later reporting and memorial-style listings that identified the man slain on Curran as James Worthy. Those sources consistently place his death on January 15, 2022, in New Orleans, and identify the manner as gun violence.
Publicly available reports about Worthy’s death do not describe a known motive, nor do they name a suspect or lay out a clear narrative of why he was targeted, whether it was sudden confrontation or something that began earlier and followed him to Curran Road. The early police accounts also did not include physical descriptions of a shooter, a vehicle, or a direction of flight—only that the homicide unit was investigating and that the victim’s identity would follow after family notification.
In the sources available online, there is no confirmed information indicating that an arrest was made in connection with James Worthy’s killing, and no publicly named suspect or suspects tied to the case in official reporting. The case appears, at least in the public record reflected by those reports, to have remained an open homicide investigation rather than one that quickly moved into an arrest, charges, or court proceedings.
