Mahamed Abdi was 20 when he was shot and killed in Louisville, Kentucky, on his birthday, May 14, 2022. The shooting was part of a double homicide in the Hikes Point neighborhood that also claimed the life of his best friend, 18-year-old Kahlil Laghmani. Both men were fatally wounded near Taylorsville Road and later identified by the coroner’s office.

Family remembered Abdi as a young man whose birthday turned into a day of profound sorrow after what his mother called a senseless act of gun violence.

If anyone has information about the double shooting near Taylorsville Road on May 14, 2022, please come forward and share what you know.