In the early morning hours of April 18, 2023, a violent altercation in Louisville’s Portland neighborhood ended the life of 33-year-old Samantha Thompson, an African American mother of four. Officers responding to a shooting around 2:40 a.m. in the 400 block of North 25th Street found Thompson with multiple gunshot wounds; she was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital and died shortly after arrival. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office later confirmed her identity and cause of death. Thompson, a Jeffersontown High School graduate, would have turned 34 two days after her death.

Eyewitnesses told police an argument between Thompson and 35-year-old Ivan Caulder escalated, and that Caulder produced a handgun and shot Thompson once. Investigators from the Louisville Metro Police Department’s Homicide Unit identified Caulder as the primary suspect and encouraged anyone with information to come forward.

Did anyone in the Portland neighborhood see or hear anything that night that could help the investigation?