Racynnio Rankins, 35, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds on March 1, 2016, on Madelon Court in the Shawnee neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. Emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene after officers arrived while responding to a separate shooting. The Louisville Metro Police Department opened an investigation treating the incident as a targeted act of violence; for a time there were no immediate arrests as investigators worked to identify suspects and motive.

The community held vigils while his family waited for answers. Rankins had a prior conviction for trafficking cocaine while in possession of a firearm as a teenager and was later pardoned by Governor Steve Beshear in 2015. In a later development the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office concluded the shooting was justifiable and announced no charges would be filed; the investigation had also involved another man who was shot and survived and who had been a suspect in Rankins’ death.

Did anyone in the community know Racynnio or have information about what happened that night?