Barry Kenner, a 51-year-old White man from Corinth, Kentucky, was shot on the evening of August 18, 2018, at a Keefer Lawrenceville Road residence. He called 911 and, before dying, identified his assailant as Paul James Jr., a 39-year-old man also from Corinth. Kenner was airlifted to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center but succumbed to his injuries.

Investigators say the motive stemmed from a belief, not from evidence: James blamed Kenner for the death of his brother, who died of a drug overdose and subsequent drowning. That belief appears to have originated with a dream one of James’s other brothers had, and there was no evidence linking Kenner to the brother’s death. James allegedly planned and carried out the shooting of an unarmed Kenner; he was arrested and charged with murder.

Kenner’s family remembered him as an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting, fishing, and growing tomatoes, and as a member of the NRA and Grassy Run Baptist Church. If anyone knew Barry or has information about the shooting, please share what you remember.