In the dark hours of October 1, 2020, the quiet along Wall Boulevard in Algiers was broken by gunfire. When New Orleans police arrived near the intersection with Cypress Acres Drive around 2:19 a.m., they found Hakeen Jones, 39, a man, lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds. He was declared dead at the scene, and detectives began the slow work of turning a violent moment into a timeline of who was there, what led up to it, and who pulled the trigger.
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