In the early evening of April 4, 2021, a burst of violence shattered the calm near the intersection of W.J. Hodge and Madison Streets in Louisville, Kentucky. There, 29-year-old Roderick Ballard, a Black male, was found by police suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The incident, which occurred just before 6 p.m., would become the city's 44th homicide of the year. Emergency responders rushed Ballard to the University of Louisville Hospital, but his injuries proved too severe, and he succumbed
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