Police arrest suspect more than a year after 27-year-old shot to death outside Highlands bar

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Police say they've arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of a 27-year-old man outside a Highlands bar last year.

According to Alicia Smiley, a spokeswoman for the Louisville Metro Police Department, Sherman Sherley has been charged with murder and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, for the June 17, 2021 murder of Juvon Foster.

Police say the shooting happened at about 1:40 a.m. in the parking lot between Akiko's and Nowhere Bar.

According to an arrest warrant, Foster was walking out of the bar, when Sherley, who had been sitting in the parking lot in a gray charger, shot him several times.

Foster died at the scene.

The next day, police say the gun Sherley used to shoot Foster was found on Grinstead Drive. According to court documents, Sherley's DNA was found on the magazine of the handgun, and his cell phone showed he was in the vicinity of the crime scene at the time of the murder.

Sherley is charged with murder and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon.

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