Latia Davette Greenwell, a 31-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot on the evening of December 19, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky. Shortly before 7:30 p.m., Louisville Metro Police officers were dispatched to the 1700 block of South 32nd Street in the Park DuValle neighborhood, near Dr. William G. Weathers Drive and Wilson Avenue. When officers arrived, they found Greenwell suffering from a gunshot wound.
Police immediately began emergency treatment, including applying a chest seal, and continued life-saving efforts until emergency medical personnel reached the scene. Greenwell was transported to University of Louisville Hospital, but despite those efforts, she died a short time later. The Jefferson County Coroner's Office subsequently confirmed her identity and determined that she died from a gunshot wound.
The circumstances surrounding the violence quickly became more complicated. As homicide detectives were beginning to determine what had taken place on South 32nd Street, another woman arrived at University Hospital by private means suffering from a stab wound. Police believed the injured woman had been at the same location where Greenwell was shot, although investigators did not publicly explain what had led to the confrontation or what relationship existed between Greenwell and the other woman. The second woman's medical condition was not publicly disclosed in the initial reports. Authorities said at the time that they believed all of the parties connected to the incident had been accounted for, but that statement was not accompanied by an announcement that anyone had been arrested or charged.
Away from the circumstances of her death, Greenwell had deep ties to Louisville. She was born there on February 12, 1992, and was raised in the city. As a young person, she attended City Church International, participating in its choir and liturgical dance team. She attended Nativity Boniface Academy before continuing her education at Presentation Academy. During adulthood she worked while attending college and eventually moved into entrepreneurship, establishing her own commercial cleaning company. She was also raising two daughters, who were 12 and 8 when she died. Her obituary described a large surviving family that included her parents, siblings, grandmother, uncles and other relatives and friends.
In the days immediately following the shooting, police released little additional information about what detectives believed had happened. No publicly identified shooter was announced, and news reports did not name the woman who had suffered the stab wound as a suspect. Police also did not publicly describe whether a firearm had been recovered, whether the shooting occurred inside or outside a residence, who initiated the confrontation, or whether investigators believed Greenwell's shooting and the other woman's stabbing occurred during the same altercation. WDRB reported that although police said all parties were accounted for, authorities had not confirmed that any arrest had been made.
The absence of an announced arrest has continued to define the case. Louisville Metro Police maintains an official gallery devoted to its open homicides, and Greenwell remains listed among the department's 2023 open homicide cases. No reliable online source located for the case identifies a person who has been arrested or formally charged with her killing, and no subsequent trial or conviction has been publicly reported. The available official record therefore indicates that Greenwell's homicide remains unresolved, with no publicly named suspect having been prosecuted for her death.
