On November 25, 2020, 28-year-old Richard Blake Martin was found dead from a gunshot wound in a carport area on Louisville Road in Bardstown, Kentucky. Martin was a father of two daughters and worked for Doc’s Industrial, Trademark Excavating, and MBJ Logging.

A caller at the scene led deputies to a residence on Abbey Ridge Road where they located a vehicle linked to a suspect. Authorities arrested 32-year-old John Thomas Wimsett of Bardstown, who surrendered without incident and was charged with murder in Martin’s death. Investigators say the shooting occurred at the home of Martin’s ex-girlfriend, who was also Wimsett’s ex-girlfriend; a witness reported Martin arrived and was shot shortly after entering, with no physical altercation or words exchanged. Wimsett was booked into the Nelson County Jail and pleaded self-defense; the first trial ended in a hung jury and a mistrial, and a retrial was scheduled.

If anyone knew Richard, his movements that day, or has information about what happened at the house on November 25, 2020, please come forward.