Ada Franco

On a warm Sunday afternoon in July 2014, Amanda Franco, a 23-year-old woman from Lexington, Kentucky, sat on the front porch of a home along Race Street as children played nearby and the neighborhood moved through an ordinary summer day. It was just after 3 p.m. when the quiet was broken by gunfire. Neighbors heard the shots and called for help, and officers were dispatched to the area of Race Street and Goodloe, where they found Amanda in the 200 block of Race Street, gravely wounded by at leas ...