A man was shot early Thursday morning in Louisville's Shelby Park neighborhood and rushed to the hospital by EMS, with his condition still unknown and police searching for the shooter. The shooting happened at about 6 a.m. in the 900 block of South Shelby Street, according to officials.
MetroSafe officials received a call reporting the shooting, and the victim was transported by EMS to the hospital, according to WHAS11. Police are searching for the shooter, per MetroSafe officials, and WHAS11 News said it planned to send crews to the scene. The station said it would provide an update when more information becomes available.
A Familiar Stretch of Shelby Park
This is not the first time this particular pocket of Louisville has made headlines for gunfire. In April 2023, officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 1000 block of South Shelby Street around 1 p.m., according to wave3.com. A man was transported to UofL Hospital with injuries officials called non-life-threatening in that incident.
Other shootings have struck nearby blocks of the same neighborhood in recent months. A man was hospitalized after a shooting in the 300 block of East Oak Street around 1:30 a.m. on July 14, according to wdrbwave.com. He was alert and conscious en route to the hospital and was expected to live, though police said there were no suspects yet in that case.
A separate early-Saturday shooting in the 400 block of Shelby Parkway, around 3:30 a.m., sent a man to UofL Hospital with injuries police described as non-life-threatening, reports wlky.com. In that case, LMPD's Non-Fatal Shooting Unit led the investigation, but there were no suspects identified, according to the same source. Another incident in the neighborhood left a teenage boy hospitalized after being shot; he was expected to survive, and no arrests had been made, wlky.com reported separately.
Citywide Numbers Show a Different Trend
The repeated shootings around Shelby Park stand in contrast to broader citywide figures this year. Louisville has recorded 67 homicides so far in 2026, down from 86 at the same point in 2025, according to wlky.com. The city has also seen a 25% decrease in nonfatal shootings compared to the same period last year, Mayor Craig Greenberg said, per the same report.
September 2026 brought Louisville just four homicides, its lowest total for that month in nearly a decade, according to Greenberg's figures cited by wlky.com. Louisville Metro's gun-violence dashboard, which draws from the Louisville Metro Police Department's records system, is described by the city as updated daily. A Louisville Metro government page states that between 2020 and 2025, the city experienced nearly 900 homicides, 91% involving a firearm, while more than 2,700 people survived nonfatal shootings during that same span.
None of those broader figures change what happened Thursday morning on South Shelby Street, where a man remains hospitalized with an unknown condition and the person who shot him has not been identified. The article, authored by Sarah Bolgan and published through WHAS11, said an update would follow as more information becomes available.
