On Friday afternoon, August 14, 2020, 30-year-old Nicole Merrell was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Earlington Ideal Market in Earlington, Kentucky. At the time she was holding a toddler who was also struck by gunfire; the child was injured but was expected to recover.

Investigators quickly identified 32-year-old Dennis Stone of Madisonville as a suspect. Stone and Merrell had children together. After the shooting Stone fled but turned himself in the next morning to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department in Davidson County, Tennessee. Hopkins County detectives obtained arrest warrants charging Stone with murder, first-degree assault, and twelve counts of first-degree wanton endangerment. Extradition back to Kentucky was begun.

What details do readers in Hopkins County remember from that day or from Nicole Merrell’s life that might shed light on the case?