Dominique Fels was 26 when he was fatally shot in the early morning hours of January 31, 2021, at a Days Inn on Fern Valley Road in south Louisville. He had been attending a birthday party at the hotel when a fight broke out between two other people; Fels intervened to try to de-escalate and was shot multiple times. Emergency crews arrived around 4:30 a.m. and pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators from the LMPD Homicide Unit handled the case. Fels was a father of four; his family publicly expressed frustration and pain over what they described as poor communication from the police about the investigation. More than a year later an arrest was made: Darrell Cowherd of Jeffersonville, Indiana, who had been a guest at the party, was identified by a witness and by hotel surveillance as the shooter. Cowherd ultimately accepted a plea deal that reduced the murder charge to manslaughter and included a conviction for possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, resulting in a 12-year prison sentence without eligibility for probation.

Does anyone who knew Dominique or who was at that Days Inn party have information that could add context to what happened that night?