Steven Farrow Adkins, 48, was fatally shot following a violent altercation in the Auxier community near Prestonsburg, Kentucky. The shooting occurred on a Friday afternoon; Kentucky State Police found Adkins with a fatal gunshot wound after responding to the scene. Reports state Adkins had been fighting with 67-year-old Larry Johnson when the shooting happened and that Johnson had fled before officers arrived.

Prestonsburg police later apprehended Larry Johnson, who was charged in connection with Adkins’s death and lodged in the Floyd County Detention Center. The investigation into how the dispute escalated to a deadly shooting is ongoing. Adkins, born January 11, 1977, was a husband and father whose family and community are mourning his loss.

If anyone saw or has information about the altercation in Auxier that day, please come forward.