On the morning of November 6, 2022, 37-year-old Adrian J. Starks was shot while lying in bed in the Spring Hollow Avenue apartment he shared with a roommate in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Despite his wounds, Starks was able to stagger to a neighbor’s apartment and speak with police before being flown to TriStar Skyline Medical Center in Nashville for surgery, where he later died.

Officers found the roommate, Mickeal McCathren, then 38, hiding under a mattress during an initial search of the apartment; a handgun was recovered in the bedroom within his reach. Neighbors reported hearing gunshots and seeing Starks leave his apartment for the one next door, and investigators say no other people were seen entering or leaving around the time of the shooting. Police were told there had been recent tension between the two men after Starks contacted McCathren’s family about alleged drug use roughly a week earlier. McCathren told police he had blacked out and could not remember what happened; Starks mentioned a roommate to police before he died but did not identify who shot him.

McCathren was arrested and charged with murder, possession of a defaced firearm, and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon; he was held at the Warren County Regional Jail on a $500,000 cash bond. Did anyone in Bowling Green see or hear anything that morning that could help clarify what happened?