On November 1, 2021, 33-year-old Ousmane Ndaw was found shot to death in an alley in the Park Hill neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, in the 2200 block of Dumesnil Street. Louisville Metro Police responded around 4:30 a.m. and pronounced him dead from a gunshot wound. The case was handled by the Louisville Metro Police Department’s Homicide Unit.

Investigators traced the crime to Ndaw’s stolen vehicle. Two days after the shooting, officers located the car at a gas station; the driver fled in the vehicle, led police on a pursuit, then abandoned the car and ran. The driver, identified as 26-year-old Kaelin Denza Akins, was arrested and found with a backpack containing a 9mm handgun, heroin, and a scale. Ballistic testing matched the 9mm to the gunshot that killed Ndaw. Akins was charged with murder, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, fleeing and evading police, and trafficking in a controlled substance.

Ndaw was remembered by loved ones as a hardworking and selfless automotive entrepreneur. Does anyone have information about Ndaw, his movements in Park Hill that morning, or contacts who might help fill gaps in the timeline?