Desmond L. Mitchell, 37, was killed by gunfire on the night of April 8, 2026, on Algonquin Parkway in south Louisville. Officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department responded at about 10:50 p.m. after reports of a shooting in the 900 block near the Algonquin neighborhood and just east of Taylor Berry Park. Emergency personnel treated Mitchell at the scene but he was pronounced dead there; the Jefferson County Coroner identified his cause of death as a gunshot wound and listed the manner as homicide.

Police said everyone involved had been accounted for and was being questioned, but no public reports named a suspect or described a motive. LMPD’s Homicide Unit took over the investigation and has been working to determine what happened in the moments before Mitchell was shot. If anyone was in the area of Algonquin Parkway or Taylor Berry Park that night and saw anything relevant, please come forward with information.