On a Tuesday afternoon, October 25, 2016, Kyrisha Seanae Armstrong, a 21-year-old female, was fatally wounded in a shooting in the Pines Village area of New Orleans. Just before 3:30 p.m., Armstrong was seated in the back of a parked vehicle on Virgilian Street with four other individuals, including a toddler, when an unidentified person opened fire on them.
The hail of bullets struck Armstrong in the back, while the other occupants of the car, which included her boyfriend Marion Moses,
his brother, another man, and a 2-year-old child, were unharmed. The emergency response was complicated when the ambulance transporting Armstrong to the hospital was involved in an accident, necessitating a second ambulance to continue to the medical center. Tragically, she later died from her injuries.
In the immediate aftermath of the incident, investigators arrested Marion Moses and his brother, charging them with obstruction of justice. Authorities stated that the brothers gave conflicting accounts of the shooting and had discarded the weapons they used to return fire at the assailant. While they were arrested, it has not been suggested that they were responsible for Armstrong's death. The case has grown cold, with the person who fired the fatal shot still unidentified and at large.
