Joshua Douglas Williams, 21, was found fatally shot in his mobile home on Deckard School Road in Rineyville, Kentucky, after a 2:30 a.m. call about an injured, unresponsive man on September 6, 2020. The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office opened a homicide investigation but said early on that investigators didn’t have much information to go on.

Authorities noted another fatal shooting in neighboring Elizabethtown about six hours later that same day; that case was described by Elizabethtown police as a targeted crime, but any connection between the two incidents has not been established. As of late 2025 no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests announced in Williams’s death.

Williams was remembered by those close to him as highly intelligent, loving, kind, and loyal. He graduated from Job Corps in 2018 with training in cement and masonry and enjoyed writing music and poetry, cooking, and spending time with family and friends.

If anyone knew Joshua, his routines, or has information about what happened that night, please share what is known.