Demetrius O. Knox, a 23-year-old Black man from Louisville, Kentucky, was killed on November 8, 2007, at 458 10th Street. Official records and an obituary record that date as both the day he died and the start of a murder investigation by detectives who responded to the scene. Funeral arrangements listed services at York Street Baptist Church and burial at Green Meadows Memorial Cemetery; his birthdate is given as August 24, 1984.

His death is listed on the Louisville Metro Police Department’s public site in the 2007 Open Homicides gallery and appears on regional cold-case maps and resources as an unsolved murder. Public-facing records do not identify a suspect, person of interest, arrest, charge, or prosecution in connection with his killing.