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Justin Robert Kern was 36 when he was shot dead on the evening of June 9, 2017, inside an apartment complex on Manslick Road in Louisville’s Jacobs neighborhood. Officers responding shortly before 10:30 p.m. found him on the second floor with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Within days investigators identified two suspects. Police arrested 18-year-old Gemehr O. Murphy and a 16-year-old male whose name was withheld because he is a juvenile. Authorities charged them with murder, first-degree robbery, tampering with physical evidence and theft of firearms. Police say Murphy confessed that he and the teenager killed Kern during a robbery and took multiple firearms; officers recovered several guns in a search of Murphy’s Bachmann Drive residence. A judge held Murphy on a full cash bond and described him as a danger to the community.

Does anyone who lived near Manslick Road in June 2017 remember activity or people around the complex that night?