On the evening of Sunday, July 9, 2023, 36-year-old Robert L. Lowe Jr. was shot and killed during a dispute at a residence on Wagon Ridge Road in Stearns, Kentucky. Lowe was seated in the driver’s seat of his vehicle when a male juvenile fired the fatal shot. Emergency responders arrived around 6:45 p.m., and the McCreary County Coroner pronounced Lowe dead at the scene; his body was sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy.

Kentucky State Police opened a murder investigation into the shooting. The probe identified and led to the arrest of two male juveniles who were each charged with murder and lodged in the Adair County Youth Development Center; the investigation remains ongoing.

If anyone has information about what happened on Wagon Ridge Road that night, please come forward to assist the investigation.