Wilbert C. Reeves was 23 when he was shot and killed outside an apartment building at 1605 Squires Drive in the Iroquois Homes housing project in Louisville, Kentucky, during the early morning hours of July 21, 2010. Friends and teachers remembered him as an accomplished track athlete with reported Olympic potential, a beloved teammate in a local basketball dynasty, and someone whose smile impacted many.

The shooting occurred during a fight; another man was wounded. The Louisville Metro Police Department investigated and later arrested 22-year-old Whitney Clemons on a charge of criminal facilitation for murder, accused of aiding the crime. Despite that arrest, the death remains an open and unsolved homicide in LMPD records. His funeral was held at G.C. Williams Funeral Home and he was buried at Green Meadows Cemetery.