Kyle Brandt York, 19, was found with a life-threatening gunshot wound at a residence on Country Estates in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, after a call to Anderson County Dispatch on the evening of April 13, 2019. He was taken to Frankfort Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead there.

Kentucky State Police opened a homicide investigation after the initial report of an accidental shooting. Investigators focused on York’s 18-year-old girlfriend, Jordan Witt, and according to police, she was under the influence of illegal drugs when she picked up a handgun and shot York. An arrest warrant described her putting a loaded .22 revolver to his head and pulling the trigger. Witt was arrested and charged with his murder and lodged in the Shelby County Detention Center.

York was a 2018 graduate of Anderson County High School and was studying to become a drug counselor at Eastern Kentucky University; he was remembered as kind-hearted, a music lover, and passionate about helping others. Does anyone in the area have information about that April 13 evening or knew Kyle and his circle?