LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Louisville Metro Police are looking for a third suspect wanted in connection with a 2025 triple homicide outside of a driver's license branch in Valley Station.
A suspect, who is now 19 but was 17 at the time, was arrested Wednesday and charged with three counts of complicity to murder, five counts of first-degree wanton endangerment involving the discharge of a firearm and receiving stolen property valued at $10,000 or more. Police didn't release the suspect's name because he was a juvenile at the time of the shooting.
The shooting happened just before noon Feb. 21, 2025, outside the driver's license office at 6202 Willismore Drive as customers waited in line before te office opened.
Three people were killed: 29-year-old Raysa Valdes, 33-year-old Antwanette Chillers and Chillers' 18-year-old son, Leslye Harbin Jr. Five other people were in the line of gunfire but weren't hit.
33-year-old Antwanette Chillers and Chillers' 18-year-old son, Leslye Harbin Jr. (Family photo)
When Jamilia Chillers learned an arrest was made in the murder of her sister and nephew, she said her heart sank.
"I was shaking," Chillers said. "It kind of felt like the same phone call I got when they was telling me that my sister and my nephew were the ones at the DMV, my heart sunk to my stomach."
That phone call from an LMPD Homicide Unit detective took Chillers back to that day.
"Every day is February the 21st," she said.
Chillers said soon after the murders, her son was told he would be next. And while they got a small piece of justice Wednesday when they learned an arrest was made, Chillers said she was sad to learn it was a child.
"It was more of an overwhelming sad situation to know that a child, a child ruined our lives," she said.
At a press conference Thursday afternoon, LMPD Lt. Les Skaggs said three individuals walked up to the DMV and intentionally began shooting into the line of people, citing video surveillance footage. Police did not detail whether there was a relationship between the shooters and the victims. Detectives said they still don't know what the motive for the shooting was.
"I would say that their actions were intentional and ultimately, with as many people as were standing in line, many more people could have been shot," Skaggs said.
Skaggs said this all happened despite marked LMPD vehicles at a nearby business where officers were having lunch.
The suspects then fled on foot and got into a vehicle that police learned was stolen from a local dealership several days before the shooting. Skaggs said the dealership hadn't yet noticed the vehicle was missing, so it was reported stolen after the shooting.
DNA evidence and Flock cameras were used to identify the suspects in the homicide investigation. Officers were able to find the stolen getaway vehicle the day of the shooting at 35th and Chauncey, off Southern Avenue near Russell Lee Park in Louisville's Park Duvalle neighborhood.
"Through the cooperation of eyewitnesses and the use of technology ranging from DNA, surveillance video, cellphones and GPS, we were able to get justice for these families," Skaggs said.
When processing the vehicle, investigators collected evidence and DNA that were sent to labs for testing. Skaggs said over the last 17 months since the shooting, the lead detective wrote and served 50 search warrants in the investigation that led to additional evidence leading to the identification of the suspect arrested Wednesday.
Skaggs said the teen was out on home incarceration on charges in an unrelated case at the time of his arrest. He's charged with complicity to murder because, Skaggs said, he and the other two suspects all fired their weapons into the line of people waiting outside the DMV.
The results of DNA testing led investigators to several profiles for people potentially involved in the triple shooting. One of those potential suspects, Skaggs said, was murdered in a separate homicide. Police did not share details about the person or the homicide, citing an ongoing investigation.
In Kentucky, cases involving juveniles who are 15 years old and older, and who are charged with Class A, B, or C felonies, are automatically transferred to the circuit court to be tried as an adult. Jefferson County's Commonwealth's Attorney Gerina Whethers said her office prosecutes every case that comes across her office to the fullest extent.
"When it comes down to him or her, and you're responsible for three or four other lives and they're no longer with us, I will do everything in my power to get you off the street, and I mean that," Whethers said.
Based on Kentucky law, the 19-year-old meets the criteria to be charged as an adult.
As investigators look for the third suspect, they're asking eyewitnesses to come forward with any information they may have.
"We need the community's help to solve these cases," Skaggs said.
Anyone with information in this or any other case is encouraged to call LMPD's anonymous Crime Tip Line at (502) 574-LMPD (5673). Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the department's online Crime Tip Portal by clicking here.
You can watch LMPD's full press conference from Thursday in the video player below.
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