Lee Edward Trowell, a 50-year-old Black man, was shot dead in the early hours of January 15, 2017, on Vermont Avenue in west Louisville. He was found with multiple gunshot wounds at a residence at 3138 Vermont Avenue and was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 5 a.m. The shooting was the city’s first fatal shooting of 2017 and opened a homicide investigation by the Louisville Metro Police Department.

No arrests have been announced and authorities have not publicly identified any suspects; the case has grown cold while the investigation remains officially open. Family and community members held a funeral service on January 23, 2017, and Trowell was buried in Green Meadows Cemetery. Few details about what happened that morning have been released.

If anyone has information about Lee Trowell’s death or was in the area of 3138 Vermont Avenue on January 15, 2017, please come forward to help bring answers to his family.