Kevin Ray Saunders, a 32-year-old Black man and Louisville resident, was found fatally shot on the morning of August 28, 2024. Police were called about a person down around 7 a.m. in the California neighborhood and discovered Saunders unresponsive in the 1000 block of Dixie Highway with multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene and the Jefferson County Coroner later publicly identified him and ruled the death a homicide.

Detectives from the Louisville Metro Police Department’s Homicide Unit secured the area, canvassed for witnesses and searched for evidence, but as of August 2024 no suspects or persons of interest have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced. The motive remains unknown, and the investigation is ongoing.

If anyone witnessed activity on Dixie Highway that morning or has information that could help the case, please share what you know with investigators.