On the evening of April 27, 2024, at about 9:30 p.m., gunfire was reported in the 1700 block of West Ormsby Avenue in the Park Hill neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. Officers found two people inside a residence with gunshot wounds; 80-year-old James Jones and 53-year-old Lorrie Hayden were both pronounced dead at the scene. The LMPD Homicide Unit opened a double homicide investigation and initially had no suspects.

Investigators later identified a man as a person of interest and located him, but he fatally shot himself before he could be arrested or fully questioned; no officers fired their weapons. The Louisville Metro Police Department’s Public Integrity Unit is investigating that man’s death. With the person of interest deceased, the motive for the killings of James Jones and Lorrie Hayden may remain unresolved.

If anyone has information about the events on West Ormsby Avenue that night, please share what is known with investigators.