On the evening of October 7, 2021, 36-year-old Craig Lee Tolbert was shot and killed at the Ramser Court apartments off Dixie Highway in Shively, a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky. Tolbert, described as peaceful, had approached 28-year-old Michael Young to try to de-escalate a crisis after Young — recently released from the hospital and behaving paranoically — threatened to harm himself with a handgun he had obtained from his mother.

Witnesses and Young’s family say Young fired as Tolbert stood near the front door of an apartment. Tolbert was taken to University Hospital and died of his wounds. Young fled, discarded the handgun on a nearby deck, and was later found and arrested in a backyard on Ralph Avenue. He admitted during questioning to taking several pills in the two days before the shooting, to placing the gun to his own head, and to firing in Tolbert’s direction; he was charged with murder and held on one million dollars bond.

Tolbert is remembered for intervening to help someone in crisis and paying with his life. Does anyone have memories of Craig or information about that night that could help clarify what happened?