On the morning of January 15, 2020, 18-year-old Nathan Terrance Britt was found dead at an apartment complex on Nob Hill Lane in the Clifton Heights neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. Nathan, a Black student at Moore High School who was expected to graduate that year, had been shot multiple times and then set on fire. A passerby spotted the fire and called authorities; Britt was pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds and thermal injuries.

The Louisville Metro Police Department opened a homicide investigation and appealed to the public for information. Nathan’s family and community were left grieving a violent and sudden loss; no arrests have been publicly announced and the identity of any suspect or any motive remains unknown. If anyone knew Nathan, his movements that night, or saw anything suspicious in the Clifton Heights area, please come forward with information.