Kourtenay Keefe Davis was 26 years old when he disappeared from Jackson, Mississippi, on January 16, 2016. Public missing-person records identify him as a Black/African American man with black hair and brown eyes, and NamUs lists his case as MP33611, with the Jackson Police Department as the investigating agency. The available case information places his last known contact in Jackson, in Hinds County, and describes the circumstances in painfully brief terms: Kourtenay was last seen that day and
then vanished from the people who expected to hear from him again.
Accounts from public missing-person sources add more detail about the day he disappeared. Kourtenay was reportedly last seen on or near Terry Road in Jackson after leaving his home in south Jackson while driving a black 2013 Chevrolet Camaro. MissingSippi reports that he had left his residence with a friend to look at a car he was interested in buying, and that he was last seen at what was then known as Fred’s Discount store on Terry Road. Other public summaries also place him in south Jackson that day, driving the Camaro, before all contact with him stopped.
The concern for Kourtenay grew quickly because, according to MissingSippi, he was close enough with his mother that they spoke daily, and she realized something was wrong when he did not return home or contact her. His family’s alarm was not based on distance or silence alone; it was based on the sudden break in an ordinary pattern of communication. In missing-person cases, those small daily rhythms often become some of the most important signs that a disappearance is out of character, and in Kourtenay’s case, the silence that followed January 16, 2016, was immediate and deeply troubling.
Shortly after Kourtenay vanished, his black 2013 Chevrolet Camaro was found abandoned. Several sources report that the vehicle had been stripped after his disappearance, an especially concerning development because it separated Kourtenay from the car he had last been known to be driving and left investigators and his family with more questions than answers. The Charley Project and the Mississippi Repository both note that few details are publicly available beyond the vehicle being found abandoned and stripped, and WAPT reported that police had received several tips but had not found him.
Publicly available descriptions of Kourtenay include black hair, brown eyes, and identifying marks, including scars on his right cheek, right arm, and right hand, along with tattoos or marks noted on his right hand and right forearm in NamUs-related records. Some public sources differ slightly on height and weight, with NamUs and repository-style records listing a range while other reports describe him around 6 feet 1 inch and about 180 pounds; those discrepancies are not unusual in older missing-person records, but they matter because accurate identifying information can help the public recognize someone or help investigators compare records.
Years after he disappeared, Kourtenay’s case continued to be circulated by law enforcement and Mississippi missing-person sources. In January 2024, Darkhorse Press reported that Jackson police were again asking for the public’s help, stating that Kourtenay had last been seen in Jackson and that the vehicle he had been driving had been located. The Mississippi Repository lists the case as unsolved, and the available public record still leaves the central questions unanswered: where Kourtenay went after he was last seen, what happened after he left home in the Camaro, why the vehicle was later found stripped and abandoned, and who may know more than they have shared. Kourtenay Davis’s disappearance remains the story of a young man who left home in Jackson on January 16, 2016, was last connected to his black Camaro in south Jackson, and then vanished into a silence that has left his loved ones waiting for answers.Last Seen: Jan 16, 2016
