Montevious Quartez Goss, a 16-year-old Black male from Louisville, Mississippi, was last seen on the morning of January 11, 2023, around 7:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Dean Drive getting into a green Dodge single-cab pickup truck. An Endangered/Missing Child Alert was issued after his disappearance.

On January 30, 2023, railroad workers found a body in a wooded area between Railroad Avenue and South Church Avenue in Louisville; the Louisville Police Department confirmed it was Montevious. An autopsy ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound. Investigators have considered the possibility the wound was self-inflicted, but the death remains under active investigation.

A related outbreak of violence occurred on February 12, 2023, when a convenience-store shooting left one person dead and five injured; authorities say that shooting was connected to Montevious’s death. Several people were arrested on aggravated assault charges in the February incident, but no arrests have been announced in connection with Montevious’s killing.

If anyone knew Montevious, saw him on January 11, 2023, or has information about the green Dodge pickup, please come forward to help clarify what happened.