Brian Edward Carr Jr. was a 19-year-old Black man from Lexington, Kentucky, who was shot and killed on Sunday, May 1, 2011, on East Main Street. City homicide records list the location as the 300 block of East Main and record cause of death as a gunshot wound. Detectives assigned his death as case number eight for 2011 and marked the case status CBA — cleared by arrest — listing a suspect named Robert Benton.

Carr came from a large, close-knit family including his parents, a twin brother, six sisters and three brothers. Funeral services were held at Consolidated Baptist Church, and obituary and memorial pages show family and friends remembering him as respectful, quick to smile, and deeply loved.

If anyone knew Brian, his routines on East Main Street that night, or has information relevant to the case, please share what can help clarify what happened.