On the late afternoon of April 12, 2015, 16-year-old Kentrell Provens was walking on Germantown Road in Chattanooga when he was struck once in the chest by a gunshot. He was taken to a nearby hospital with a life-threatening injury and died that evening. Provens was a student at Brainerd High School; family and friends described him as energetic and happy and said he had no known enemies.

The Chattanooga Police Department opened a homicide investigation. Investigators said they did not believe Provens was a validated gang member, though he may have had associations with people involved in gangs. In the days after the shooting police appealed to the public for information; no suspects were publicly identified and no arrests were made in the immediate aftermath.

The community and Provens’s family were left seeking answers after a young life was cut short by violence. If anyone has information about what happened on Germantown Road that afternoon, please come forward.