Otis Kinchen was a 36-year-old Black man who was fatally shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday, August 21, 2012. Police were dispatched about 1:30 a.m. to reports of gunfire and found his body in a vacant lot in the 1200 block of Convention Street.

Homicide detectives opened an investigation but had not established a motive or identified any suspects publicly in the initial stages. A few days later another fatal shooting on nearby North 13th Street involved a victim witnesses said was related to Kinchen, and police explored whether the cases were connected. As of late August 2012 the killing remained unsolved.

If anyone knew Otis Kinchen, saw activity near the 1200 block of Convention Street that night, or has information that could help, please come forward.