Dewayne Cortez Harris, a 32-year-old Black man, was found shot inside his home at 3905 Alma Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 4, 2003.
The address became a fixed point in the case, a place investigators returned to in reports and later public summaries: a man dead in his own house, a killing that happened behind closed doors and left more questions than answers.
Publicly available case listings do not describe who discovered him, what time officers arrived, or what may have drawn someone to that home on Alma Avenue. What they do make plain is the outcome—he was found shot—and that the case stayed on the books as an open homicide rather than something resolved quietly or quickly.
Years later, when local reporting revisited Knoxville-area unsolved killings, Harris’ name appeared among the dead whose families and investigators were still waiting for a break. That same reporting noted police appeals for information on unsolved cases and provided a dedicated number for tips, emphasizing that callers could remain anonymous.
In the sources available online from official listings and local reporting, no suspect is identified in connection with Harris’ death, and no arrest, charge, trial, or conviction is described for the shooting at 3905 Alma Avenue. The case continues to be presented publicly as an unsolved murder, with investigators still seeking information that could explain who entered that home and why the night ended in gunfire.
