Antoine Manro Watkins was 27 when he was found shot to death in a back bedroom at 3717 Selma Avenue in Knoxville on November 23, 2008. He had been shot multiple times, and police treated his killing as a homicide amid a late-autumn surge of violence in the city.

Investigators reported retaliation as a suspected motive, though the specific reasons remained unclear. The case drew additional attention because a separate unsolved killing eight months earlier occurred directly across the street — 72-year-old Nola Atkins was found dead in her living room — and the only person ever arrested in her death was Darius Kyle, identified in reports as Watkins’s cousin. Police said they had not established a definitive link between the two homicides. Reluctance of potential witnesses to come forward hampered the probe, and no arrests have been made; the case remains unsolved.

Anyone with information about Antoine Watkins, his movements that month, or the neighborhood in 2008 is asked to come forward.