DeMario Sheree Lowery, 26, a Black man from Detroit, was killed in Knoxville, Tennessee in the early morning of October 12, 2020. Officers responded just before 1 a.m. to the Lonsdale Homes apartment complex on Texas Avenue after a Chrysler 300 had crashed into a parked Ford Expedition. Inside the Chrysler, Lowery was found with at least one gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.

A witness reported seeing a Black male wearing a white shirt and red shorts flee from the vehicle before police arrived; that person has not been identified. The Knoxville Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit has been investigating, but no arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced and the case remains unsolved.

If anyone was in the Lonsdale Homes area that night or has information about the person seen running from the vehicle, please contact the Knoxville Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit.