In the Bashford Manor neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, a 23-year-old man named Gyasi Carothers-Spotts was fatally shot on Saturday, November 28, 2015. The incident occurred just before 7 p.m. in the 3200 block of Golden Turtle Circle. The Jefferson County Coroner's Office confirmed that Carothers-Spotts died from a gunshot wound.
At the time of his death, Carothers-Spotts was an employee at the Kroger Distribution Center and a member of the Zion Baptist Church.
He was a father to a young son and had a twin sister. His family and friends remembered him as a loving and hardworking individual. The year 2015 was marked by a significant number of homicides in Louisville, creating a climate of concern and a growing list of unsolved cases for the local police department.
The death of Gyasi Carothers-Spotts is listed as an open homicide by the Louisville Metro Police Department. In the years following his death, no arrests have been publicly announced, and no suspects have been officially named. The case remains one of many unsolved homicides from that period in Louisville, leaving his family and community without answers or a sense of justice for his untimely death. The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and authorities continue to seek information from the public.
