On a Sunday afternoon in the Shawnee neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, the life of Mortell A. Ashford, a 26-year-old Black male, was tragically cut short. On February 12, 2017, at approximately 2:00 p.m., Ashford was found lying in the street at the intersection of North 39th Street and Jewell Avenue. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Jefferson County Coroner's Office. The incident cast a somber shadow over the community as another life was
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