In the early morning hours of August 27, 2016, 15-year-old Morgan Marie Penn was fatally shot during a sleepover at a friend’s mobile home in the Parker Mobile Home Park in Stamping Ground, Kentucky. The shooting was reported at 4:46 a.m.; a bullet struck Morgan and she died. Morgan was a ninth-grade student at Scott County High School’s Ninth Grade Center and was remembered by family and friends as sweet, musical, and well liked.

Investigators quickly developed a suspect after a witness described a vehicle seen leaving the scene. Georgetown police stopped a vehicle matching that description, and the driver, 27-year-old Michael K. Davidson of Georgetown, fled. He was caught after a chase that ended at the Capital Mobile Home Park in Franklin County and was arrested. Davidson was charged with Morgan’s murder and pleaded not guilty; he also faced parole and probation violation charges related to a prior drug trafficking conviction. The motive has not been made public.

If anyone has information about Morgan, the shooting, or the vehicle seen leaving the Parker Mobile Home Park that morning, please come forward.