Martez C. Tez Wade

Martez Christopher “Tez” Wade was a 17-year-old Black male from Louisville, Kentucky, growing up in the Overlook Terraces apartment complex off Glimmer Way on the city’s south side. He was an 11th-grade student at Breckinridge High School, remembered by teachers, co-workers, and family as bright, goofy, loving, and trying hard to steer his life in a better direction. He balanced school with a job at a Rally’s restaurant, where his manager later described him as a promising young student ...

The Courier-Journal: Coroner identifies 17-year-old boy fatally shot in Fairdale

17-year-old identified as victim of fatal shooting Wednesday in south Louisville