Late afternoon on Tuesday, September 3, 2024, police in Lexington, Kentucky, responded to reports of shots fired in the 2000 block of Cambridge Drive. Officers found 30-year-old Deonte Logan suffering a gunshot wound and he was taken to the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:42 p.m. The Fayette County Coroner’s Office ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound and an autopsy was scheduled at the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Frankfort. Logan’s death was counted as the city’s 11th homicide of 2024.

Within days the Lexington Police Department identified a suspect. On a Sunday following the shooting, 28-year-old Xavier Walker was arrested and booked at the Fayette County Detention Center; court records show prior felony convictions, including robbery. Walker has been charged with murder, first-degree robbery, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and is being held on $750,000 bond.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Cambridge Drive or has information about what led up to it, please come forward.