Jermaine JayQuan Sprewer, 25, vanished from his home on Crockett Drive in southwest Louisville on September 7, 2021. Shortly after his disappearance the family began receiving FaceTime calls in which Jermaine appeared bound and had guns pointed at him while the callers demanded a large sum of money for his return.

Jermaine’s body was found four days later, on September 11, at the boat ramp in Shawnee Park. The discovery prompted a homicide investigation by the Louisville Metro Police Department, which had been treating the case as a suspected kidnapping for ransom.

In January 2022 Louisville Metro Police and federal partners arrested 31-year-old Roderick Bush and 28-year-old Dejuan Simonton on charges of complicity to murder and complicity to kidnapping; executing related search warrants led to an exchange of gunfire at one location. In April 2022 a Jefferson County grand jury indicted Joseph Hale on charges of murder and kidnapping in connection with Sprewer’s death.

If anyone knew Jermaine, saw suspicious activity around Crockett Drive or Shawnee Park in early September 2021, or has information about the people involved, please come forward.