In the early morning hours of March 3, 2020, 28-year-old Tevaughn Jordan Porter, a Black man from Lebanon, Kentucky, was found outside a residence on Oak Street with a fatal gunshot wound. Emergency responders from the Kentucky State Police and the Lebanon Police Department were called and the Marion County Coroner pronounced Porter dead at the scene.

Porter identified 21-year-old Treyvon Downs as the person who shot him before he died; that identification came during a 911 call made by someone at the scene. Officers located and arrested Downs in Lebanon. Downs told investigators Porter had tried to rob him, saying he wrestled a gun away and shot Porter as Porter fled, but text messages between the two showed they had arranged to meet for a drug transaction involving Xanax.

Downs was charged with murder in connection with Porter’s death and was later convicted. If anyone knew Tevaughn Porter, the circumstances of that March night, or the planned meeting on Oak Street, please share what you know.