Richard Harper was 18 when he was shot and killed at a bus stop near Shawnee Park on 43rd Street in Louisville, Kentucky, in the early morning hours of January 7, 2019. A senior at Valley High School, he was on his way to school when emergency responders took him to University of Louisville Hospital, where he died. He was the father of a young son and was known to family and friends as Dookie.

Seven months after the shooting, in August 2019, a 17-year-old named Daryl Horton was arrested in Ohio and charged as an adult in Harper’s murder; Horton pleaded not guilty in September 2019. Harper’s mother, Nicole Cowherd, said the shooting was reportedly over a dispute about a girl. The family had already endured another homicide when Nicole’s stepfather, Charles Cowherd, was killed in Louisville in 2016, and Nicole has since become an advocate against gun violence.

Did anyone in the area around Shawnee Park that morning see or hear anything that could shed light on what happened?