Zachee Iitwitaho was 26 when she was shot and killed in Louisville, Kentucky, on February 3, 2023. An immigrant from Rwanda who arrived in the United States in 2019, she worked at the JBS Foods plant and was killed in the plant’s parking lot as she was leaving her shift. Friends and supporters described her as happy, smiling, loving and willing to help others; a candlelight vigil followed the killing with advocacy and support groups taking part.

A coworker, identified as Edilberto Lores Reyes, turned himself in to Louisville Metro Corrections shortly after the shooting. Investigators recovered a firearm in a vehicle he had parked outside the corrections facility and said surveillance footage captured the shooting and showed the person who fled the scene wearing the same clothes and driving the same car Reyes used to surrender. Reyes confessed to the killing but pleaded not guilty to murder and was being held on $100,000 bond while the investigation continued. The motive and the full nature of their relationship, beyond being coworkers, have not been released.

If anyone knew Zachee, her routines at the plant, or saw anything in the JBS parking lot that afternoon, please share what you know.