Gregory Norris Jr. was 21 when he was shot multiple times and killed on the afternoon of July 9, 2018, in a common area of an apartment complex in the 5300 block of Hames Trace in the Fern Creek neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. Neighbors heard the gunfire, at first thinking it was firecrackers; Norris was found by neighbors and pronounced dead at the scene. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office ruled his death a homicide from multiple gunshot wounds.

Police tied the shooting to a narcotics transaction gone wrong. Within a week a 19-year-old, Yacir Raful Jr., was arrested; he told police he was present for a drug deal that turned into an altercation, during which another person with him shot Norris. That second suspect was identified as 17-year-old Chad Austin Harlamert, who was charged as an adult. Both were charged with complicity to murder, first-degree robbery, and tampering with physical evidence.

In March 2020 Raful pleaded guilty to amended charges of complicity to first-degree robbery, second-degree manslaughter, and tampering with physical evidence and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Norris’s mother publicly expressed deep disappointment with the plea as unsatisfactory justice. The case against Chad Austin Harlamert was still moving through the courts. Did anyone in Fern Creek see activity around the 5300 block of Hames Trace that afternoon or have information about the people involved?