Ronald Eugene Nelson Jr., known as Ron, was 44 when he was shot multiple times and found on Martin Luther King Avenue in Knoxville in the early morning hours of November 5, 2016. He was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center and pronounced dead. Nelson left behind daughters, including one who had not yet been born, and was remembered by family as having a big heart.

The Knoxville Police Department treated the case as a homicide. Investigators recovered multiple shell casings at the scene and publicly appealed for witnesses, but no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced. The case is listed by the department as an open investigation and has gone cold in the years since.

Did anyone in the Knoxville area see or hear anything that night on Martin Luther King Avenue that could help bring Ronald Nelson’s killer to justice?