A planned child exchange in Hazard, Kentucky, ended in a deadly ambush in the winter of 2013. Twenty-year-old Caitlin Paige Cornett went to Hazard Community and Technical College to pick up her two-year-old son after a court-ordered visit. She was accompanied by her 53-year-old uncle, Jackie Doug Cornett, and his 12-year-old daughter, Taylor Cornett.

As their vehicle entered the parking lot, 21-year-old Dalton Lee Stidham opened fire after having purchased a .40-caliber Glock pistol earlier that day. Jackie Cornett was found dead in the driver’s seat; Caitlin was found on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds; Taylor was gravely wounded and died the following day. The child was not harmed and was taken by Stidham to his family’s home before he surrendered to police. Stidham was arrested, admitted the shootings, and faced three counts of murder. The shooting followed a court hearing the prior day that awarded joint custody with Caitlin as primary caregiver, a decision cited as the apparent motive.

Did anyone in Hazard remember details from that custody hearing or the day of the exchange that could help clarify what happened?