Lottie Elizabeth Eicher, 20, was shot and killed on the afternoon of Saturday, April 2, 2016, in the backyard of a home on the 2100 block of Bolling Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. A student at the University of Louisville’s Speed School of Engineering and an employee of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, she was present with her boyfriend and another person when two men entered the backyard from an alley and a dispute over firearms erupted into a gunfight. Witnesses said the two men who approached opened fire; Eicher and her boyfriend were both struck. Lottie was taken to the emergency room and died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Two men arrested in the investigation were Aron Ballard and Anthony Foster. Prosecutors believed the fatal bullet came from Foster’s gun, while the defense said the two men had approached because people in the backyard were firing shots and that a gunfight ensued; it could not be determined who fired first. In 2018 both men accepted plea deals: Foster pleaded to manslaughter and wanton endangerment and received 10 years; Ballard pleaded to assault under extreme emotional disturbance and wanton endangerment and received 14 years. Does anyone who knew Lottie or was in that neighborhood that day have information to add?