Mark Cotton, a 53-year-old Black man, was found shot and later pronounced dead on the morning of November 10, 2018, in the Russell neighborhood of west Louisville. He was discovered just after 5:30 a.m. in the 200 block of South 28th Street near West Market Street with multiple gunshot wounds; the Jefferson County Deputy Coroner’s office confirmed those wounds as the cause of death.

Louisville Metro Police opened a homicide investigation and appealed to the public for information. No arrests or suspects were publicly identified in the initial stages, and the case was listed as an open homicide. Few details about what led up to the shooting have been released.

Did anyone in the Russell neighborhood that morning see or hear anything that could help explain what happened to Mark Cotton?