Antoine Manro Watkins was 27 when he was found shot to death in a back bedroom of a house on Selma Avenue in Knoxville on the night of November 23, 2008. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds; no arrests have been made and the case remains an open, unsolved homicide.

Investigators faced a difficult environment shaped by local criminal activity and gang-related tensions that, according to reports, hampered witness cooperation. Watkins had a criminal record, including a robbery conviction that carried a five-year sentence. Eight months earlier, the unsolved murder of 72-year-old Nola Atkins occurred directly across the street; Watkins’s cousin was questioned as a suspect in that case and later released. Watkins reportedly refused to cooperate with police probing Atkins’s death, and an investigator’s report included a note suggesting retaliation as a possible motive, but authorities have not officially linked the two killings.

Does anyone who lived on or near Selma Avenue in 2008 remember anything that could help reopen this investigation?