On the evening of October 6, 2015, 55-year-old Joseph Keith Otis was shot in the neck during a fight at Club Cedar on South 26th Street in Louisville, Kentucky, and died at the scene. The altercation followed a long-running dispute between Otis and Maurice Deal that reportedly began more than a year earlier after Otis accused Deal of damaging his vehicle. Days before the fatal shooting the two had fought at the same club, with Otis knocking Deal unconscious.

Witnesses said Deal started another fight with Otis on October 6, and a gun appeared during the struggle. Deal himself suffered a gunshot wound to his hand. Two days later Maurice Deal, then 51, was arrested and charged in connection with Otis’s death. Some accounts mentioned Deal’s brother was at the club and was suspected by some of being the shooter, but who fired the fatal shot was not definitively established in early reports. Otis, known as Keke, had worked for Metro Public Works and was described as beloved in his community.

Does anyone have information about the club scene or the long-running dispute between Otis and Deal that could shed light on what happened that night?