On a summer night in Wolfe County, Kentucky, a verbal argument on Lakeside Drive between two men ended with Jarron Nicholas Slayback, 31 and from Cincinnati, Ohio, shot and pronounced dead at the scene on June 17, 2020. Kentucky State Police say the other man involved was 31-year-old Troy Dunkelberger of West Chester, Ohio, who retrieved a firearm during the argument and shot Slayback. Dunkelberger was arrested and held in the Powell County Detention Center on a charge of Murder in the First Degree.

The case moved through the courts: in May 2023 a Wolfe County jury convicted Dunkelberger of first-degree manslaughter and he received a 20-year sentence. The Kentucky Supreme Court then overturned that conviction in March 2025, finding the trial court erred by allowing evidence that characterized Dunkelberger as the initial aggressor; the court said actions described by witnesses — yelling Slayback’s name and displaying a holstered firearm — did not meet the legal standard for that instruction and directed that the instruction not be given if the same evidence is used at retrial. The family of Jarron Slayback has been left devastated by the prospect of a new trial.

Does anyone have information about Jarron’s last night on Lakeside Drive or about witnesses who were in that area on June 17, 2020?