LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The Louisville Metro Police Department released body camera footage Friday of the fatal shooting of a homicide suspect in an exchange of gunfire in downtown Louisville.
According to LMPD Deputy Chief Ryan Bates, officers responded at 4:09 p.m. April 6 to a report the suspect in a recent homicide, 18-year-old Nathan Walker, was at the Taco Bell on South 1st Street and West Broadway.
Police said Walker was identified as the suspect in a double shooting just after 5:30 a.m. Friday, March 20, in the 700 block of East Caldwell Street. Remon Allen, 27, was killed, and his twin brother was injured.
Body camera footage shows officers responding to the restaurant where Walker is sitting on a retaining wall behind the building. Sgt. Joshua Arnwine and Officer Arron Sauer are seen pulling up next to Walker.
As officers approach, he points a gun at them. Walker and the officers exchange gunfire, and Walker falls to the ground. A short time later, Walker sits up and points his gun at officers again, and officers respond with more gunfire.
Walker was hit multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Bates said a stolen handgun found in his backpack was determined to be the weapon used in the March 20 double shooting.
LMPD's Public Integrity Unit is investigating the shooting. Once the PIU investigation is complete, it will be turned over to the Commonwealth's Attorney for review, as well as Kentucky State Police and the Louisville Office of the Inspector General.
The officers involved have been placed on administrative leave as the investigation continues.
Those officers were identified April 9 as officers Sauer, Arnwine, Matthew Forbes, Evan Stovall and Michael Leek. Arnwine, Sauer, Forbes and Stovall are all part of the Criminal Interdiction Division, while Sauer and Stovall are part of the department's Violent Crime Unit. Leek is a patrol officer.
Personnel records show all five officers have several letters of commendation for their work helping victims of crimes and for capturing violent criminals.
Louisville Metro Police Ofc. Evan Stovall, Ofc. Arron Sauer, Sgt. Joshua Arnwine, Ofc. Matthew Forbes, and Ofc. Michael Leek were involved in a shooting on Monday, April 6, 2026. (Photos courtesy of LMPD)
Sauer joined LMPD on June 27, 2017. He was exonerated in 2020 in an investigation into use of force for a June 2019 incident, as well as a 2019 vehicle pursuit. He has received more than 40 letters of commendation.
Forbes joined LMPD on Sept. 9, 2014, before resigning in September 2019. He was rehired by the department on July 25, 2022. He was exonerated in a Professional Standards Unit investigation of a June 2017 vehicle pursuit in June 2017 and a July 2024 officer-involved shooting. Forbes was given a letter of reprimand for violating obedience to rules and regulations in a different investigation. He was given a letter of commendation in October 2022 for helping a woman in crisis. He has received at least 12 other letters of commendation.
Stovall joined LMPD on Feb. 12, 2018. He was exonerated in an investigation into a warrant he served in 2019 and was disciplined in a chargeable accident in February 2018. He has nearly 50 letters of commendation.
Leek joined LMPD on June 11, 2012, and resigned in January 2021. He was rehired last March. He has a letter of reprimand for a 2013 court attendance and another letter of reprimand for a "chargeable accident" in November 2015. He received a letter of commendation in September 2017, and another in March 2020 for deescalating a situation with a subject threatening to commit suicide.
Arnwine joined the department in June 2016. He has been suspended and counseled numerous times for not reporting things properly, not deescalating things correctly and numerous crashes.
He received a letter of reprimand and was suspended without pay for four days in November 2018 for a Professional Standards Unit investigation stemming from a December 2017 incident. Another letter of reprimand was given to Arnwine for violating the department's vehicle usage standard operating procedure in 2018. In 2019, he was given a letter of reprimand for violating procedures by displaying "unprofessional conduct" and failing to deescalate when he got into a verbal exchange. He was exonerated in an officer-involved shooting in December 2023.
Personnel records show Arnwine has received 45 letters of commendation throughout his time on the force.
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