Alec Tinko Pettiway, 21, was fatally shot in Louisville’s Russell neighborhood on the night of Sunday, March 7, 2021. Officers responding to a call found him in the 900 block of Esquire Alley with at least one gunshot wound; he was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital and later pronounced dead. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office ruled the cause of death multiple gunshot wounds and classified it a homicide.

Known to family and friends as Tinko, Pettiway was born August 10, 1999, in Louisville. He was remembered as charming and energetic, had earned a scholarship for culinary arts, and was a father to two children, Ah Khari Hassan and Jai Alyx Pettiway, and a step-son, Cali King Moore. No arrests or suspects have been publicly identified; the Louisville Metro Police Department lists the case among its open homicide investigations and asks anyone with information to use the anonymous tip line.

Did anyone in the Russell neighborhood see or hear anything that night that might help investigators?