Cedrick James Herbert was 23 when he was murdered in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on June 15, 2009. He was at a female friend’s apartment at the Northfield Lodge Apartments on East Northfield Boulevard. Investigators believe one or more people forced entry through the front door while he slept, woke him, forced him to his knees, and shot him three times in the back of the head in what has been described as an execution-style slaying. His friend discovered the body when she returned just after 9:00 a.m. Nothing was reported taken from the apartment, a detail that has left motive unclear. The case later grew cold; the Murfreesboro Police Department identified several persons of interest over the years but no arrests have ever been made, and no suspects have been publicly named. Herbert’s family suffered another loss less than a year later when his cousin Nathan Morgan Jr. was killed in an unrelated unsolved homicide in Murfreesboro.

Did anyone in the community have contact with Cedrick in the days before June 15, 2009, or notice anything unusual around the Northfield Lodge Apartments that morning?