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Identities of two people killed on Sunday announced

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Identities of two people killed on Sunday announced

Louisville Metro Police continue to investigate a shooting Sunday morning in the Original Highlands neighborhood that left two men dead and one hospitalized.

Officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 900 block of Baxter Avenue, LMPD spokesman John Bradley said in a statement Sunday. A man who was shot, later identified as 20-year-old Michael Bachelor Jr., was pronounced dead at the scene. Another man who was also shot, later identified as 29-year-old Montay Wade, was taken by emergency personnel to the University of Louisville Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

A short time later, a third man injured in the shooting was taken by private vehicle to Norton Women and Children’s Hospital. He is expected to survive, Bradley said.

The LMPD is in the “early stages of the investigation,” spokesman Matthew Sanders said in a statement to the Courier Journal. However, he declined to say whether any suspects had already been arrested.

“Beyond that, we have not confirmed anything publicly at this time and are not doing so,” Sanders said.

Shooting in the Highlands is the latest incident in a series of notable murders

According to data from the LMPD gun violence dashboard, homicides are up slightly compared to the same period last year. As of Wednesday, LMPD reported 104 homicide deaths in 98 incidents. On the same day in 2023, LMPD reported 97 deaths in 87 incidents. Louisville appears to be bucking a nationwide trend for 2024, as the FBI reported in June that the U.S. homicide rate fell 26.4% from January to March.

The LMPD dashboard also showed that the number of reported shootings in 2024 (296) was lower than in 2023 (306), 2022 (340), 2021 (481) and 2020 (365).

On July 21, 31-year-old Devontae Beach was pronounced dead at the scene of an overnight shooting in the 800 block of West Main Street, near the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory and the Kentucky Science Center. LMPD officers reported finding Beach in a vehicle with gunshot wounds. EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.

Beach was managing Louisville native EST Gee, who performed a concert at the KFC Yum! Center earlier in the evening.

The investigation into Beach’s death was still ongoing Tuesday, according to the LMPD’s open homicide page.

On July 26, a man died in a shooting near Greenwood Elementary School in Pleasure Ridge Park. LMPD officers were dispatched to the area after a car crash was reported. When they arrived, they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. Emergency responders took him to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

On the same day of the incident, LMPD said it arrested 31-year-old Patrick Anderson in connection with the shooting near Greenwood Elementary. Anderson is a convicted felon charged with murder, tampering with evidence and possession of a handgun, court records show.

This story may be updated.

Reach reporter Leo Bertucci at [email protected] or @leober2chee on X, formerly known as Twitter

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