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On the morning of July 30, 2024, a home invasion in the Jeffersontown neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, ended in a fatal shooting. Police responded around 10:20 a.m. to a residence in the 9900 block of Old Six Mile Lane and found two people shot in a bedroom. Twenty-year-old White male Joseph A. Lewis sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene; the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office ruled his death a homicide.

A female victim was also shot and survived but suffered serious injuries to her face, shoulder, and hand that required hospitalization and surgical repair. Investigators said the victims were lying in bed when an assailant unlawfully entered the home.

Detectives reviewed nearby surveillance footage that they say tied 27-year-old Mikal T. Ballard to the attack. Ballard was arrested in early August, booked into Louisville Metro Corrections, and charged with murder, assault, and burglary. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and was held on $500,000 cash bond.

Did anyone in the Jeffersontown area see or record anything on the morning of July 30 that could help clarify what happened?