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Cynthia Johnson was a 44-year-old mother and grandmother from Louisville, Kentucky, who had rebuilt her life after addiction and become a devoted volunteer with St. Peter’s United Church of Christ’s Women in Recovery program. On the evening of October 29, 2012, she and a small group of women stopped at a convenience store near 39th Street and Broadway. After leaving the store, several young men followed the group and attempted a robbery. Johnson stepped between the attackers and the women; she was shot in the chest and died after being taken to University of Louisville Hospital.

Detectives said several people were believed responsible and reviewed surveillance footage; in December 2013 a 16-year-old, Dayarick Booker, pleaded not guilty to murder and robbery. At trial in 2015 Booker was acquitted of murder but convicted of complicity to first-degree robbery and later received a 12-year sentence.

Did anyone in west Louisville see or hear anything that night that could help fill in who was involved in the robbery and the shooting?