Chaztus D. Butt Butt Whaley Jr. was a 21-year-old Black man shot on the evening of Friday, August 11, 2017, at a house on Co-Op Road in Rockford, Tennessee. In the hours after the shooting a group of people—names not made public—brought him to the University of Tennessee Medical Center rather than calling for an ambulance. They left after dropping him off, and by early Saturday morning, August 12, he had died.

Investigators began their work at the hospital and moved backward to establish who brought him in, the exact location of the shooting on Co-Op Road, what led to the gunfire, and who fired the shots. The investigation was handled jointly by agencies in Blount County and Knoxville. Public statements urged anyone in the area that Friday night or anyone who saw something suspicious to come forward, but no suspect has been named and no arrests have been announced.

The most notable gaps are the identities of the people who delivered Whaley to the emergency room and what happened inside the Rockford home that night. Did anyone in the area see or hear anything that could identify those who brought him to the hospital or who was at the house on Co-Op Road?