On the night of May 5, 2023, a dispute on Pine Street near South Limestone in Lexington, Kentucky, ended with 21-year-old Clinton Burnette Brown of Versailles being shot. Police found Brown in the road around 12:30 a.m.; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead shortly after 1 a.m. Investigators say surveillance footage showed 19-year-old Jamierion Allen approach Brown with his hand on a gun and shoot him twice after an altercation in which Brown had punched Allen. Allen’s phone records reportedly placed him at the scene, and he was arrested that evening and charged with murder.

Brown was born in Lexington on April 6, 2002, and grew up mostly in Versailles. He was studying business with a real estate and finance focus at Bluegrass Community and Technical College and was teaching himself coding and computer science. A Woodford County High School graduate who played football and basketball, he was remembered by family for his easy smile, goofy sense of humor and curiosity.

Anyone who knew Clinton or witnessed the events on Pine Street that night is asked to share information that could shed light on what happened.