On Thanksgiving morning, November 23, 2017, 39-year-old Nicholas Lee Ford of Brandenburg, Kentucky, was fatally shot while deer hunting with a friend, Christopher B. Stone, in an overgrown field off J.E. Haynes Road in Irvington. A rifle discharged by Stone and struck Ford in the back; Ford was taken to Breckinridge Memorial Hospital and later pronounced dead by the Breckinridge County Coroner.

Kentucky State Police detectives investigated the shooting. In May 2018 a Breckinridge County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Christopher B. Stone, then 43, with murder, and Stone was arrested and lodged in the Breckinridge County Detention Center. The case moved through the courts and was resolved before a full trial when Stone pled guilty to a reduced charge of reckless homicide in September 2022, receiving a five-year prison sentence that was probated for five years.

Anyone who knew Nicholas, hunted in that area, or has information about the November 23, 2017 outing is asked to come forward.