On the evening of October 5, 2023, 33-year-old William R. Reggie Martin Jr. was found by police on Kaufman Lane in the St. Denis neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, suffering multiple gunshot wounds. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office determined those wounds caused his death and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Early reports initially placed the shooting on Seaton Hill Drive before the location was updated.

The Louisville Metro Police Department’s Homicide Unit is investigating. Detectives said they believed all individuals involved had been accounted for, but authorities did not immediately say whether anyone had been arrested; as of early reports no suspects had been publicly identified or taken into custody. William Martin Sr. remembered his son as loving and respectful, and relayed a witness account from a friend of the victim saying the shooting followed a long-running feud. That account alleges an exchange of words, a struggle over a firearm Martin Jr. was carrying, and that the other man gained control of the gun and shot him multiple times.

If anyone in the St. Denis area witnessed the incident or knew Reggie Martin and can help investigators, please come forward.