Stephen Bryant Jenkins was 39 when he was brought to the University of Tennessee Medical Center on the evening of Wednesday, February 16, 2022, by people in a private vehicle. He had at least one gunshot wound and was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Knoxville Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit opened a homicide investigation.

Detectives determined Jenkins had been transported in a Ford SUV, which they later recovered. Investigators focused initially on the Montgomery Village area of South Knoxville as the likely location of the shooting, but no definitive crime scene was immediately identified. In the days after the killing police appealed to the public for information; as of the latest update no suspects had been publicly identified or arrested and the case remained active.

If anyone in South Knoxville that night saw activity around Montgomery Village or has information about the Ford SUV used to transport Jenkins, please share what is known.