On the afternoon of Saturday, December 20, 2025, 20-year-old Milton Richie was shot and killed in southwest Louisville. Officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department responded to the 3000 block of Fordhaven Road near Pleasure Ridge Park around 4:14 p.m. After witnesses reported gunfire, first responders found Richie outside a vehicle that had come to rest in a ditch; he suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. The coroner later confirmed the cause of death as gunshot injuries.

Investigators say a large crowd had been present when the shooting occurred and that Richie was driving when he was targeted. Richie was known locally as a dedicated staff member of the annual Dirt Bowl basketball tournament at Shawnee Park. By Monday, detectives arrested a 15-year-old girl and charged her with complicity to murder and complicity to robbery; her name was not released because she is a minor. The homicide investigation remains active.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has surveillance footage from the Fordhaven Road area that could help, please come forward.