Herman Marcel Buchanan, 31, was found shot on the sidewalk in front of his first-floor apartment at Forest Villa Apartments in Frankfort, Kentucky, on March 7, 2003. A resident for only about three months, he was not well known to most neighbors; the complex was generally considered a safe place until this violence occurred. His blood was reportedly on the sidewalk outside his door, and the killing left residents shaken.

Investigators later connected Buchanan’s death to a wider series of attacks. Ronnie Dontell Drane, already wanted in Gary, Indiana, for murder and attempted murder, was identified as a person of interest and ultimately linked to multiple killings between 2002 and 2003 that included Larry Peaches and Delores Buchanan. Drane was arrested, tried, convicted and given multiple life sentences; Buchanan’s murder was part of the evidence establishing his guilt.

Does anyone who lived at Forest Villa Apartments in early 2003 remember anything unusual around March 7 that might shed more light on Buchanan’s last hours?