On June 25, 2016, 44-year-old Michael L. Bass Sr. was found shot to death inside his home on Louis Coleman Jr. Drive in the Park DuValle neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. Two other men were also found at the scene, both dead of gunshot wounds: 37-year-old John Bailey and 39-year-old Larry Thomas. Authorities said Bailey and Thomas were cousins of Bass who had been visiting from Baltimore.

Known as BIG MIKE, Bass was described as generous, a Pleasure Ridge Park High School graduate and former football player who later earned a CDL and worked as a truck driver. He was a father of three and active at Newburg Apostolic Church. The Louisville Metro Police Department investigated and, after witness interviews and scene evidence, arrested 31-year-old William Mason Jr., an acquaintance of the victims. Mason was charged with three counts of murder and held on a $1 million bond; no specific motive was publicly disclosed.

The Bass family suffered a later loss when Michael’s son, Michael Bass Jr., was shot and killed in Louisville in 2021; that case remained unsolved as of 2024. Does anyone have information about the 2016 triple homicide or the people involved that could help the investigation?