Overview
- Jacob Lee Bard, 48, is accused of fatally shooting 19-year-old student De’Jon Darrell Fox Jr. and wounding another outside a KSU residence hall on Dec. 9.
- Frankfort Police Detective Laura Marco testified that investigators used video and witness statements to identify Bard and that he admitted firing the shots.
- Marco said security footage from moments before the gunfire did not show the two shooting victims assaulting Bard’s son.
- Bard’s defense argues he acted to protect his son and cited separate videos it says show masked individuals with baseball bats at the dorm, which the detective has requested but not reviewed.
- The judge found probable cause, moved the case to a Franklin County grand jury, and ordered Bard to avoid any contact with the victims or their families; the second injured student has stabilized.