On December 10, 2016, just before 1 a.m., 24-year-old Ronnie Ramone Reed Jr. was shot in the torso inside an apartment on Guardian Court in Louisville, Kentucky. He was taken to University Hospital and later died. The shooting followed a dispute that began in the apartment complex parking lot when a female friend of Terrence D. Downs said Reed had put his hands on her. Downs, who had known Reed since middle school, went to the apartment to confront him. Witnesses gave conflicting accounts of what happened in the kitchen; Downs said Reed brandished a handgun and he fired in self-defense.

Two days after the shooting, Downs, then 24, was arrested and charged with murder, robbery, tampering with physical evidence, wanton endangerment, and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon. In June 2019 a jury convicted Downs of first-degree manslaughter and other charges and he received a 25-year sentence. In November 2020 the Kentucky Supreme Court overturned the conviction, finding Downs had been denied effective assistance of counsel because of a private, unreported fitness hearing about his attorney; the case was returned to the circuit court.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember the events that night or who can clarify what happened inside the apartment?