On the evening of June 30, 2023, 35-year-old Ashley Idell Yates was leaving her job at the 18|8 Hair Salon in the Westport Village shopping center in Louisville, Kentucky, when she was found in the parking lot with a gunshot wound. She was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital, where she died from her injuries.

Investigators quickly identified her ex-boyfriend, Zachary Hines, as the primary suspect in what authorities described as a domestic violence situation. Ashley’s brother said her life had been threatened before and that she had repeatedly returned to her abuser. The day after the shooting, on July 1, 2023, Hines died by suicide and the Louisville Metro Police Department closed the murder investigation.

On September 26, 2023, 38-year-old James Booher was arrested and charged with facilitation of murder. Court documents say Booher sent a photograph of Ashley’s location to Hines’s Facebook account about 20 minutes before the shooting and told others he was on a recon mission conducting surveillance because Hines had an issue with her. Surveillance footage reportedly shows Booher leaving the scene on a skateboard shortly after the shooting.

Did anyone who knew Ashley, worked at the salon, or was at Westport Village that night see or hear anything that could help fill gaps in the timeline?