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Amber Lynn Caudill was 19 when she was killed in Winchester, Kentucky, on December 23, 2014. She was in her downstairs apartment on Oxford Drive when a stray bullet fired during a robbery in the unit above pierced the floor and struck her, killing her at the scene. Amber was a 2013 Powell County High School graduate and a sophomore at Eastern Kentucky University studying pre-art design.

Four people carried out the planned home invasion above Amber’s apartment. Three men — Christopher Robinson, Aaron Stailey, and Lamont Wilkerson — entered the upstairs unit armed and masked; a fourth, Lillian Barnett, drove and waited in the car. A gunfight inside the apartment injured the two residents, Justin Meadows and Crayvone Ritchie, and a stray round killed Amber. All four were arrested and charged in connection with the incident, and later received prison sentences for their roles.

Amber’s parents, Marcus and Karen Caudill, also sued the owners of the Summit Apartments, alleging inadequate security — including no barrier fence, access gate, or security cameras — and negligent rental practices that they say contributed to their daughter’s death. Did anyone living near Oxford Drive at the time notice suspicious activity or remember details about the upstairs apartment and its occupants?