Carl L. Kern IV was 37 when he was shot and killed in Denver on the morning of May 7, 2021. Police were sent to an apartment complex at 10700 East Dartmouth Avenue around 7:53 a.m. after a caller reported a drunken person, naked from the waist down, yelling at children. Officers found Kern with a gunshot wound to the chest; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

A resident reported hearing what sounded like a female voice sternly saying Don’t do that sh--, then pounding and kicking at a door, and a single pop like a gunshot. Investigators traced the inquiry to an apartment belonging to 23-year-old Jeremy Polito. Officers observed a clear bag of spent rifle cartridges and drug paraphernalia in the unit. The Denver Police Department arrested Polito the following Monday on suspicion of first-degree murder; the case was in the court system as of that arrest.

Did anyone in the area hear or see anything that morning that could shed more light on what happened?