On the afternoon of Saturday, September 2, 2017, police responded to reports of shots fired at the Eastwood Garden Apartments on Forest Hill Drive in Frankfort, Kentucky. Officers found 39-year-old Michael Shane Geese Gaines on a sidewalk between the parking lot and an apartment building with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 1:00 p.m. An autopsy confirmed his death was caused by those gunshot wounds.

Gaines was a well-known local who loved the University of Kentucky, and he was a father to a son and two daughters. He also had a criminal history that included a recent guilty plea on drug-related charges and, days before his death, had been listed among Franklin County’s Most Wanted for possession of cocaine and described as armed and dangerous. The Frankfort Police Department opened a homicide investigation and appealed for information; despite initial confidence it would be solved quickly, there has been no public information about arrests or identified suspects and the case has gone cold.

Did anyone in Frankfort have information about Gaines’s movements or contacts around September 2, 2017?