On the afternoon of January 20, 2018, 24-year-old Vicente Rodriguez Ramirez was found inside his pickup truck at a Valero gas station on Poplar Level Road in the Okolona neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to University Hospital but died of his injuries shortly after arrival. Police reported Ramirez had crashed the truck at the gas station after being shot and initially had no immediate suspects.

Investigators later tied the killing to the local drug trade. Days earlier, on January 16, 2018, a kilogram of heroin was reportedly stolen from Javier H. Rodriguez and associates during a purported sale in the Victory Park neighborhood. Authorities say Javier H. Rodriguez ordered Ramirez killed in retaliation. Federal and local agencies, including the DEA and the LMPD Homicide Unit, arrested Javier H. Rodriguez and associates on February 23, 2018; the group was federally indicted on drug trafficking and murder-in-furtherance-of-drug-trafficking counts.

If anyone has information about Ramirez, the January 20 scene, or the events in Victory Park a few days earlier, please share what is known.