Amareya ’k Free, 23, was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the chest just before midnight on June 6, 2019, at Greenville Road and Mason Street in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Emergency responders performed CPR and he was taken to Jennie Stuart Medical Center, where he died shortly after arrival. He was from Pat Avenue and was buried at Green Hill Memorial Gardens after funeral services at Virginia Street Baptist Church.

Hopkinsville police arrested 19-year-old Anshanique Fish Leavell in the early morning hours after the shooting; she was reportedly in possession of a stolen handgun and, during an interview, allegedly admitted to shooting Freeman. Leavell was charged with murder and receiving stolen property and booked into the Christian County Jail; the case was bound over to a grand jury. The motive for the shooting was not immediately released.

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