Richard Graham was a father, a cook, a trained welder and a forklift driver. He was the firstborn child of Monica Graham, who said her son was “too smart for his own good.”
On May 18, 2024, Richard Graham was booked into the Louisville Metro jail. He didn’t survive the night.
“This is a place where you hope that, OK, he’s off the streets,” Delores Davis, Richard Graham’s grandmother, said. “People might shoot him up bang-bang on the streets, but now he’s in a place where he’s going to be safe.”
But Richard Graham wasn’t safe in jail. He died of an overdose. He had been in and out of jail many times. His mother said she usually posted bail quickly to get him out, but this May 2024 arrest was different…