Quante Johnson, 29, was shot on McClain Drive in Lexington, Kentucky shortly before 3:30 a.m. on January 21, 2024. He was taken to the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead there at 5 a.m.; the Fayette County Coroner’s Office confirmed his identity. His death was recorded as the first homicide in Lexington for 2024.

Detectives from the Personal Crimes Section of the Lexington Police Department opened an investigation after the shooting. No information about a suspect was released while investigators worked to reconstruct the events. In April 2024 the Lexington Police Department announced the shooting had been determined to be a justifiable homicide, and the case was treated as non-criminal with no arrests announced.

If anyone has information about what happened on McClain Drive that morning, please come forward.