Noraa Deglow, 19, was shot and killed in a Jeffersontown apartment on the evening of April 7, 2026. A Bellarmine University student on a nursing scholarship and a 2025 Assumption High School graduate, she was described as a beloved daughter and friend known for her smile and laugh. Officers were called to the 3000 block of Fir Trail around 7:30 p.m. and found her with a gunshot wound to the shoulder; she died during emergency surgery.

Her boyfriend, 21-year-old Adam Thomas, told detectives the gun discharged after he picked it up and threw it, saying it was an accident. Police found a revolver with one spent cartridge in Thomas’s jacket pocket. Multiple apartment residents told officers Thomas had a habit of pointing the gun at people in a playful, reckless way, and one witness said Thomas said the gun had misfired immediately after the shot. Thomas invoked his Miranda rights after his first statement and was arrested and charged with murder and arraigned April 8, 2026, with bond set at $500,000 and a court hearing scheduled for April 16.