Demone Lee Cook Jr., 19, was killed in a double shooting in Louisville’s Portland neighborhood on the evening of October 27, 2021. Officers responding around 6:18 p.m. found Cook dead in the 3400 block of Northwestern Parkway; a woman shot in the same incident was taken to University of Louisville Hospital in serious condition.

Witnesses identified a man who fled the scene in a car. Police pursued the vehicle to Greenwood Avenue, where the driver abandoned the car and ran into an apartment. The man, identified as 20-year-old Jeffrey Lyn Demarco Acres, was taken into custody. Officers recovered two handguns from the vehicle, one reported stolen, plus shell casings and marijuana. Acres told police he had been at the location to sell marijuana to the victim.

Cook was a father to a young son. What can anyone who knew Demone or who was in that Portland neighborhood on October 27, 2021, add to this case?