Overview
- Bard’s attorneys said in a detailed statement that he lawfully used deadly force to protect his son during a confrontation at Kentucky State University’s Young Hall.
- The defense describes alleged burglaries, assaults, threats, and disabled cameras involving non-students in the days before the shooting, asserting KSU failed to act and saying the family has since received death threats.
- Prosecutors have cited surveillance evidence, including detective testimony that one video did not show the victims assaulting Bard’s son, underscoring a core factual dispute.
- A Franklin County grand jury is set to consider a murder indictment on Tuesday as Bard remains jailed on a $1 million cash bond after entering a not guilty plea.
- The Dec. 9 shooting left 19-year-old De'Jon Darrell Fox Jr. dead and another student initially in critical condition, and campus police took Bard into custody before he was booked on murder and first-degree assault.