A domestic dispute in South Knoxville on the evening of January 30, 2018, ended with the death of 51-year-old Michael Crosby. Crosby, an African American lifelong resident who worked at a KFC on Chapman Highway, was confronted near the back parking lot of South Doyle Middle School on Taylor Road. Emergency services arrived about 8:30 p.m. and found him with a gunshot wound; he was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center and later pronounced dead.

Police located and took 21-year-old Kendall Rivers into custody shortly after the shooting, initially on an outstanding domestic violence warrant unrelated to the incident. Investigators questioned him about Crosby’s death, and on August 1, 2018, a Knox County Grand Jury indicted Rivers on a charge of second-degree murder. He was held at the Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility on $250,000 bond as the case proceeded.

Are there readers who knew Michael Crosby or who have information about the events that led to that night’s shooting?