Tyron Jones

Tyron LeRay Jones, a 28-year-old Black man from Louisville, Kentucky, spent much of his life in the Beecher Terrace housing complex, trying to raise his children in a neighborhood he knew could be dangerous. On Saturday, July 4, 2015, the holiday that was supposed to be filled with fireworks and family instead became the day his life ended. That evening, behind his home in the 400 block of South 12th Street, he was shot and later died at University of Louisville Hospital, where records list his ...

Man charged with murder in connection to Beecher Terrace shooting

Louisville murder victim had feared for his family's safety before