Atiba Kakawana “Cat Daddy” Pilart—also recorded as Atiba Pilant in gun-violence databases—was an African American man, age 40, who died in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 15, 2014.
That night ended in gunfire, with the death logged as a fatal shooting connected to a bar/club setting. Publicly available incident records place the killing in New Orleans on that date and categorize it as a “shot—dead” event occurring “in or around” an establishment, reinforcing the
picture of violence spilling into nightlife rather than a private, hidden scene.
In the wake of his death, the details that circulated most widely were the ones that tend to follow a sudden loss: his nickname, the fact of the date, and the grief that gathered around his name. The obituary notices identify him as Atiba Kakawana “Cat Daddy” Pilart and describe him entering “eternal rest” on March 15, 2014, rooted in New Orleans, with family and loved ones left to mourn him.
As for accountability—arrests, named suspects, charges, court proceedings, or convictions—no such developments appear in the accessible online sources tied to this death record and the public memorial/incident listings reviewed. The information available publicly does not identify a suspect or describe an arrest, and it does not document any prosecution connected to his killing.
