Timothy Allen Brown Jr. was 23 when he was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a car in the McDonald’s parking lot at Russell Cave and New Circle roads on the evening of January 12, 2016. He was pronounced dead about ten minutes after being found. A Lexington resident, Brown was a father of five, engaged to be married, and a Bryan Station High School graduate who had played on the basketball team. Family remembered him as trying to turn his life around, attending classes several times a week and working to improve things for his children.

Lexington Police opened a homicide investigation and indicated at a news conference that Brown had arranged to meet someone he knew the night he was killed; they initially expressed optimism about an impending arrest. It remained unclear whether the shooting occurred in the parking lot or elsewhere and the body was moved. Subsequent public reports have not named suspects or announced arrests, and the case appears unresolved. If anyone knew Timothy, his movements that evening, or has information about who he met, please share what is known with investigators.