Alvin Antione Holmes, Sr., 25, a Black man from New Orleans, Louisiana, was shot late on the night of December 7, 2014, in the Central City area, on the 2600 block of Danneel Street. The hour was around 10:00 p.m., the kind of time when a neighborhood can feel both familiar and vulnerable at once—porch lights glowing, streets half-quiet, the day winding down. Somewhere in that stretch of Danneel, violence broke through the ordinary, and Alvin was found at 2605 Danneel Street, leaving the peopl
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