Ivory Harris

Ivory Brandon Harris (born 1985), known as B-Stupid, is an American gangster from New Orleans, Louisiana, who gained notoriety when police accused him of committing murders in Houston and New Orleans. Following a 2006 arrest and 2007 plea deal, he is incarcerated in the federal prison system as of 2024.

Police said that Harris was associated with the "Dooney Boys," a group formed in the Magnolia Projects (C.J. Peete Projects) public housing community.

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, Harris had been arrested at least eight times in the 2000s and charged with murder twice; police could not get anyone to testify against him, so he could not be convicted of any serious crimes.

Before Hurricane Katrina Harris was arrested more than a dozen times as a juvenile. When Harris was 16, prosecutors charged him with killing 24-year-old Alphonse McGhee in the courtyard of the Magnolia Projects. A grand jury indicted Harris as an adult and charged him with first-degree murder. Two years elapsed as the district attorney considered Harris's mental competency. When a key witness's testimony was ruled inadmissible, the district attorney's office dropped the charges against Harris. Less than one month later, Harris was arrested for a weapons charge.

Police arrested Harris on June 19, 2005; Harris faced charges for shooting 30-year-old thrift store owner Yoshio Watson to death at a birthday party of a child at the 2600 block of Philip Street in Central City on May 12, 2005.

Two weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Jim Bernazzani, the Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in charge of the New Orleans field office, and the New Orleans police composed a list of 112 people who had proportionally committed the most crime in New Orleans; the police and FBI planned to build cases against them so they would be put in prison. Harris was one of the people on the list. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Bernazzani retrieved a disc from the remains of the FBI building before being rescued; using the disc, Bernazzani sent the list to the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.

After Hurricane Katrina On November 3, 2005, Harris was released from the Shreveport prison.

On December 28, a man named Steven Kennedy was killed; police said that the murder was likely a revenge killing in response to the 2003 murder of a New Orleans rapper named James "Soulja Slim" Tapp; police charged Harris and Jerome Hampton for that crime. Police arrested Harris on January 4, 2006, on a criminal trespassing charge in New Orleans and released him with a $2,500 bail. Houston police launched a manhunt on February 16. Wise's death was the sole recorded homicide in New Orleans on that day. According to the police, Harris had three and one-half ounces of heroin, three and one-half ounces of crack cocaine, a .45-cal. semiautomatic handgun, two loaded assault rifles, and $5,800. The U.S. attorney's office said that Harris boasted about being a drug dealer on his MySpace page. A man named Calvert "Soulja" Magee, with Harris, was also arrested.

Police also discovered that Harris had traveled between Houston and New Orleans between his release from the Shreveport jail and his arrest in the apartment; he used it as a base for dealing narcotics and keeping weapons. Prosecutors from Louisiana allowed Harris to plead guilty to manslaughter for the death of Wise. By doing so, Harris avoided a murder trial for Wise's murder; Gwen Filosa of The Times-Picayune stated that if Harris had been tried for killing Wise, the trial would likely have led to a life sentence.

Harris, Federal Bureau of Prisons #30089-034, is in the United States Penitentiary, Lee. He is scheduled to be released on January 7, 2029.