On the evening of Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 21-year-old Brandon Curtis Borders and his 17-year-old brother, Timothy O’Connor, were sitting in a car in an alley near the 2200 block of Saint Xavier Street in the Portland neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, when both were fatally shot. Both young men died from gunfire that night, and their funerals were held at J.B. Ratterman & Sons Funeral Home with burial in Evergreen Cemetery.

The case remains an open, unsolved homicide with the Louisville Metro Police Department. No arrests have been announced and no suspects have been publicly identified. The motive for the killings is unknown, and family members have continued to hold vigils and make public appeals for information.

If anyone in the Portland neighborhood that night or anyone with information about who might have targeted the brothers can help, please contact the Louisville Metro Police Department.