Markel Allen was 17 when he was found with a gunshot wound near 760 Florence Avenue in Lexington, Kentucky, on the evening of February 17, 2021. He was taken to the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital and pronounced dead at 9:43 p.m., recorded as the city’s sixth homicide that year. Around the same time a 19-year-old with a nonfatal gunshot wound arrived at a different hospital, a detail investigators noted while reconstructing the night’s events.

In April 2021 a Lexington detective testified in an unrelated murder case that the defendant, Juanyah Clay, had said Markel Allen had been present during the killing of 26-year-old Bryan Greene. That statement was reported during Clay’s hearing, but it did not produce an arrest or charge in Allen’s death.

If anyone knew Markel Allen or witnessed events around 760 Florence Avenue on February 17, 2021, please come forward with information that could help investigators.