Late on the night of Sunday, November 19, 2017, 27-year-old James Dempsey Sprinkle II was found on North 18th Street in the Portland neighborhood of Louisville with a gunshot wound to his torso. He was taken to University Hospital and pronounced dead; a single gunshot wound was listed as the cause of death.

Louisville Metro Police determined the place where Sprinkle was found was not the scene of the shooting, and that he did not live at the North 18th Street address. Police asked the public for help in the days after the discovery, but no arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced and the homicide remains unsolved.

If anyone has information about where Sprinkle was before he was found or who might be responsible, please come forward to assist the investigation.