Stephan Faulkner was 19 when he was shot while sitting on his mother’s front porch on Ratcliffe Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. The shooting happened on a Thursday night in the days before Thanksgiving 2016; he was taken to University Hospital and pronounced dead on Saturday, November 19, 2016. Another teenager on the porch survived being shot.

Stephan’s family was already grieving: his 20-year-old half-brother, Benjamin Turner, had been shot and killed a few months earlier in an unsolved homicide. As the family tried to arrange Stephan’s funeral, their home was struck by gunfire; no one was injured in that subsequent shooting. The case has remained unsolved and was later classified as a cold case. His mother, Tracy Faulkner, has publicly appealed for information and said Stephan was trying to turn his life around.

No arrests or suspects have been publicly identified. If anyone has information that could help bring answers for Stephan’s family, please come forward.