In the early hours of March 4, 2021, 28-year-old Jesse Matthew Averitt was killed when a vehicle drove past his De Porres Avenue home in Lexington and fired into the house. Averitt was struck, taken to University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital with life-threatening injuries, and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Investigators reported that 18 bullets entered the residence and believe Averitt likely was not the intended target. A witness saw a vehicle speeding away after the shooting, but no suspect has been identified and no arrests have been announced.

Averitt was a senior in the University of Kentucky nursing program and worked as a Licensed Practical Nurse at Eastern State Hospital. He had been engaged to his fiancé for ten years; friends and faculty remembered him as kind and dedicated, and he and his fiancé were saving to buy their first home.

What information about that night or the departing vehicle could help investigators bring justice for Jesse?