Dalton “Bug” Bennett, a 21-year-old Black man, was killed by gunfire on January 18, 2018, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Public reporting tied his death to a shooting in the city’s Central City area, where at least one other person was also struck and left in critical condition in the same burst of violence. He was taken from the street-level chaos of that night into the hands of first responders and investigators, and his killing was logged among the day’s fatal shootings in New
Orleans.
In the days that followed, remembrance replaced the flashing lights. Family notices described him by the nickname “Bug” and placed him within a close circle of loved ones—his mother La’Keicha Bennett and father Arthur McCormick among them—while funeral arrangements were handled through a New Orleans provider and shared publicly in local obituary listings.
As for the search for the person who pulled the trigger, the available public sources connected to his death do not identify a suspect, do not describe an arrest in his case, and do not reflect charges, a trial, or a conviction tied to his killing. In the public record that can be located from the sources above, the story ends with the loss itself rather than a named defendant in court.
