On the evening of August 25, 2021, 17-year-old Devor Andre’ Stoner Jr. was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Zaxby’s on Fern Valley Road in Louisville, Kentucky. Medical help arrived but Stoner was pronounced dead at the scene. Police opened a homicide investigation and identified and located the people they believed involved; in July 2022 a grand jury indicted Antonio Lawson on charges of complicity to murder and complicity to robbery. Court documents allege the shooting happened during an attempted carjacking involving Stoner and Lawson and that the intended victim shot Stoner.

Stoner’s mother, Shawanda Carter, later filed a wrongful death suit against the Louisville Metro Police Department alleging her son was acting as a confidential informant when he was killed and claiming a cell phone video showed an officer removing surveillance wires from Stoner’s body. The police department denied the allegations and released body camera footage to dispute the claim. Criminal proceedings and the civil lawsuit were both underway.

Are there readers who remember the Fern Valley Road area on August 25, 2021, or who have information about the shooting or events leading up to it?