David Joseph Simon Jr., a 25-year-old man from Metairie, Louisiana, died on December 10, 2013, in a shooting that left his family abruptly crossing from ordinary plans into shock. In the hours after his death, what should have been a normal Tuesday became a day measured by phone calls, sirens, and the hard realization that he would not be coming home.
As word spread, the public details remained spare even while grief expanded in every direction.
Online memorial listings and later tributes fixed the date and place, marking him as one of the people lost to gun violence that day in Metairie, without offering the kind of answers families ache for: who did it, why it happened, and whether anyone would be held to account.
Those closest to him remembered him not as a headline but as a presence—someone tied to a web of parents, relatives, and friends, and engaged to Ariel LaGarde. In the days that followed, arrangements formed around the rituals that come after sudden loss: a funeral service at DW Rhodes Funeral Home and burial to lay him to rest, gestures meant to provide a shore when everything else still felt unmoored.
In the publicly accessible sources available online, there is no verified reporting that identifies a suspect or suspects by name, and no documented arrest, charge, trial, or conviction is described in connection with his killing. What remains visible is the outline—his name, the date, the place, and the enduring fact of a life ended by gunfire—while the story of accountability, if it exists in official files, is not reflected in the publicly posted records consulted here.
