On December 24, 2024, around 9:30 p.m., 23-year-old Jalen Baker of Jeffersonville was found outside the StoneCrest Apartments on Grant Line Road in New Albany, Indiana, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Baptist Floyd Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators say Baker was the target of a planned attack tied to a long-standing feud. Authorities reported a bounty had been placed on his life, and within a month of the shooting a 23-year-old resident of the apartment complex, Kennedy Forrest, was arrested in late January 2025 and charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, assisting a criminal, and obstruction of justice; investigators alleged Forrest had been paid to develop a relationship with Baker to track his whereabouts. Police also arrested Timothy Love III and charged him with conspiracy to commit murder, saying he had an ongoing feud with Baker and orchestrated the plot; a third person, Marlon Love, was identified as the suspected shooter.

What information do readers have about Baker’s last days, his places of work or who might have known about the feud?