Charles Watkins Jr., 33, was shot and killed on the evening of September 8, 2024, in Louisville, Kentucky. Police responded about 7:40 p.m. to the area of West Oak and Dr. W.J. Hodge streets near the Park Hill neighborhood and found Watkins, a Black male, on the sidewalk outside a home with multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene and the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office later confirmed the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds.

The Louisville Metro Police Homicide Unit opened an immediate investigation. In the days after the shooting investigators were appealing to the public for information; no suspects had been identified and no arrests had been reported. If anyone was in the Park Hill area that evening or has information about who might be responsible, please share what is known with police.