Johnnie Hayes, 59, was found dead inside a vehicle on Bluff Street in Rosine, Kentucky, on the evening of January 16, 2019. He had suffered two gunshot wounds from a small-caliber firearm. The Ohio County Sheriff’s Office recovered a home security video system from a nearby residence as part of the investigation.

Three people were arrested in connection with the case. Adam Lacefield, 30, of Caneyville, was initially charged with first-degree assault and later had that charge upgraded to murder. Wanda Ferguson, 39, identified as Hayes’s former girlfriend, was charged with tampering with physical evidence, possession of methamphetamine, and failure to report a dead body. Mandy Decker, 40, of Beaver Dam, was charged with possession of methamphetamine and failure to report a dead body. Lacefield was arrested on the night of the killing on an outstanding warrant; Decker was arrested the next day and Ferguson two days later. All three were lodged in the Ohio County Detention Center.

In the months before the killing, Hayes and Ferguson had been shot at while pursuing would-be burglars in a vehicle in late November, and about two weeks later an explosive device was found in Hayes’s barn. It is not clear whether those incidents were connected to his murder.

Does anyone in the area have information about Hayes, the November shooting, or the explosive device found in his barn?