Cortez Duncan Jr. was 15 when he was shot and killed in the early hours of Thanksgiving morning, November 25, 2021, in Louisville’s Shawnee neighborhood. He was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 600 block of Hecks Lane. A second teenager was critically wounded and located about a block away. The shooting spanned two scenes, beginning on Hecks Lane off River Park Drive and ending on Dearborn Avenue in the adjacent Chickasaw neighborhood.

By May 2022 Louisville Metro Police had taken two 16-year-old boys into custody and charged them with murder, possession of a handgun by a minor, and possession of a defaced firearm; their names were initially withheld because they were juveniles. In July 2022 a grand jury indicted two 16-year-old teenagers identified as Damarian Moore and Mckay Cable on multiple charges, including two counts of complicity to murder, in cases tied to Duncan’s death and to other shootings from 2021.

Does anyone have information about Cortez’s last known movements or the events on Hecks Lane that morning?