On a warm Labor Day evening, September 2, 2019, gunfire broke out at a large cookout in East Frankfort Park, Kentucky, dispersing about 150 people. Twenty-five-year-old Anthony Lamarr Hendrix Jr., a Black man from Cincinnati and a former defensive back for the Kentucky State University football team, was struck multiple times. Paramedics found him unresponsive; he was taken to Frankfort Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead. Two other people suffered minor injuries.

Frankfort Police identified a primary suspect as 28-year-old Justin L. Cromer, also known as Crome, another former KSU football player who had briefly been Hendrix’s roommate. Investigators say witness interviews and evidence led to an arrest warrant; Cromer left the park that night and later traveled to Detroit. He was located by U.S. Marshals nearly two months after the shooting, extradited to Frankfort and indicted for murder. After two and a half years in custody, Cromer went to trial and a jury acquitted him in February 2022.

Did anyone at the cookout or in the KSU community see something that could still help clarify what happened that night?