Brian Scott Hicks, 33, was found with a fatal gunshot wound inside an apartment on Daylily Drive in the Montgomery Village area of South Knoxville on the evening of February 14, 2021. Knoxville Police responded to a report of a burglary in progress; what began as that call became a homicide investigation when officers discovered Hicks suffering from the gunshot injury. He died at the scene despite efforts to save him.

Investigators have treated the shooting as a homicide connected to the reported burglary. The case remains open and the Knoxville Police Department has asked the public for information. No suspects have been publicly identified or arrested in connection with Hicks’s death. His mother, Judy Adkins, died a few months after her son and did not learn who was responsible.

If anyone has information about the events that night or knows anything about activity at the Daylily Drive apartment, please share it with the Knoxville Police Department.