Antoine Leo L. Ellis was 32 when he was found shot to death on the evening of Thursday, January 28, 2010, in an alley between 38th and 39th Streets near Duncan Street in Louisville’s Shawnee neighborhood. His body was discovered in fading daylight; the slaying remains unsolved and is being treated as a homicide.

Hours after Ellis was found, his childhood friend Deshon Johnson was also discovered shot to death a few blocks away outside his daughter’s home on Bank Street. Investigators and Ellis’s family have said the proximity in time and location suggested the two killings were connected, but the inquiry stalled and the matter later went cold.

Ellis’s mother and grandmother have publicly expressed their grief and continued appeals for information; family vigils have been held in the alley where he was found. Anyone with information, however small, is asked to contact the Louisville Metro Police.