Anthony Tone Carter, 47, was shot and killed on a Lexington street in the early morning hours of a Wednesday in June 2014. He had moved to Lexington from Michigan about six months earlier hoping to find work and bring his seven children to the new home his brother had encouraged him to seek. Around 5:40 a.m. a Chestnut Street resident heard a gunshot and found Carter lying in the street; he was alive but died shortly after arriving at University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital from a single gunshot wound to the back. A witness reported seeing someone ride away from the scene on a bicycle.

Investigators focused on Jefferey Charles Morris, known as Black Jeff, after witnesses placed him in the area and said he and Carter had been arguing. Court documents say Morris confessed; he was arrested in Arizona in November 2014 and later indicted on murder and tampering with evidence charges. At an October 2015 trial jurors heard competing accounts of Morris’s location at the time of the shooting, and after deliberation they returned a not guilty verdict on the murder charge. Carter’s family described him as friendly and a fan of basketball and UK sports.

If anyone knew Anthony, his routine, or saw activity on Chestnut Street that morning, please share what was seen or heard.