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Jean Makenson Deroche, a 21-year-old Haitian-American father and warehouse worker, was shot multiple times and found in the parking lot next to his vehicle at the Lakewood Terrace Apartments, 1315 W 14th Street in Lakeland, Florida, on October 9, 2016, at about 4:30 a.m. He was taken to Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

The case initially had no identified suspect, but investigators later developed a lead: Kenyon Quartus Covington, 29 and from Winter Haven, was arrested on unrelated identity and credit card charges on June 20, 2017, and a Polk County grand jury returned a first-degree murder indictment against him in August 2017. Covington was held without bail in the Polk County Jail on the murder charge.

Did anyone in Lakeland or the Lakewood Terrace Apartments see or hear anything the morning of October 9, 2016 that could help fill in what happened to Jean Makenson Deroche?