LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Police continue their investigations following a string of shootings over the weekend in Louisville.
Early Saturday afternoon, someone shot and killed a man inside Farm Boy Convenience Store in the Park Hill neighborhood.
Police responded to the store, located in the 1800 block of West Oak Street, around 2:15 p.m. Inside, they found someone HAD fatally shot a man multiple times, before allegedly running off.
LMPD's Homicide Unit is now investigating. At this time, the store will be closed while detectives canvass the area and interview potential witnesses.
It comes less than 24 hours after a shooting in the 1000 block of Bardstown Road, late Friday.
Police say it happened around 10:30 p.m., and when officers arrived on scene, they found a man hurt from multiple gunshots to the legs.
The preliminary investigation found a car accident between someone riding a motorcycle and someone driving led to an argument that ultimately ended in gun fire.
The victim is in the hospital, and police say they detained someone on the scene.
In the wake of tragedy, the Office of Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods (OSHN) is highlighting groups tackling the issue head on.
"We've all been there, but look where we're at right now. We have social media, we have all of those impacts—things that influence our youth," Nicole Hayden, founder of Friends of Nicole 50/50 Mentoring Collaborative, said. "I believe in order for us to be the change, we have to be the change be catalyst for change."
During the hours-long gala and awards ceremony, OSHN recognized the Metro Youth Cabinet.
"Part of our mission is really trying to reduce violence where we can," Kofi Aboussa, a youth cabinet member, said. "Taking away our youth, who are you know, really growing up in atmospheres that involve crime involved adult to make kind of influence crime to continue."
"It's going to take a big societal a societal ever like everyone has to kind of come out of the effort of anti violence or lessening factor for there to be a change," Sterling Chase, another youth cabinet member, said.
OSHN works with hundreds of groups focused on youth and youth violence prevention.
"Being a part of South Louisville, and seeing just a crime, you know what I mean? I put together something I felt like girls and guys could gravitate to," Hayden said.
Groups include Hayden's.
"Any little small part neighborhood, a neighborhood community to community blocks a block, you know, if everybody community does their part to stop violence in our neighborhoods, in our community in our city, then we can say we Job well done," she said.
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