A cookout at the Coolavin Apartments in Lexington, Kentucky, turned deadly on the night of April 14, 2019. Twenty-four-year-old Aaron Coney was involved in a physical fight with 25-year-old Damarcus Daquron Jones during the gathering. According to accounts, Jones left but returned shortly after with a handgun, forced his way back into the apartment, found Coney in the kitchen area and fired multiple shots. Coney was struck four times and taken to University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital, where he died in the early hours of April 15.

Lexington police identified Jones as the suspect and arrested him the next day during a traffic stop. Jones acknowledged being at the cookout and fighting with Coney but told detectives he had no memory of returning with a weapon or firing it, saying he only came to later while in a car. Investigators did not recover the murder weapon but say Snapchat videos from the party show a handgun being passed around. Jones was charged with murder, indicted by a grand jury, and held at the Fayette County jail on $500,000 bond awaiting trial.

If anyone who attended that cookout or has information about the handgun seen on the Snapchat videos can help, please share what is known.