On the evening of August 24, 2021, 28-year-old Darian Williams of Mayfield was shot and killed on Makenzie Circle in Hickory, Kentucky. Calls about gunfire reached Kentucky State Police, Post 1, at about 6:35 p.m.; troopers and detectives found a fatal shooting at the apartment complex. An autopsy confirmed Williams died of multiple gunshot wounds. Investigators treated the incident as isolated and canvassed the area for leads.

Kentucky State Police detectives developed information pointing to suspects in Tennessee and worked with Tennessee authorities. On September 10, 2021, a Graves County grand jury returned an indictment for Facilitation to Murder against 32-year-old Alexander James of Nashville; James was arrested that same day at his Nashville residence. On September 14, 2021, an arrest warrant was obtained for 32-year-old Enrique Dane Decoursey of Smyrna on a charge of murder; he was located and arrested in Maryland near Upper Marlboro. Both men were being held awaiting extradition to Kentucky to face charges in Williams’s death.

Did anyone in the Hickory or Mayfield area see or hear anything that night that could help investigators?