Samuel Whitfield, 38, was killed in a drive-by shooting in the pre-dawn hours of September 18, 2022. The Black man was at a residence on Wilson Avenue in the Park City area of Knoxville when a vehicle drove by shortly before 5 a.m. and multiple shots were fired toward the house. Whitfield was struck and taken in a personal vehicle to the University of Tennessee Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

The Knoxville Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit opened an investigation and interviewed several potential witnesses but has not publicly identified or arrested any suspects. The case remains active and investigators have asked the public for information that could lead to an arrest.

If anyone in the Park City neighborhood that morning saw the vehicle or has information about the shooting, please share what is known with Knoxville police.