A second mass shooting in less than a week has shaken the city of Louisville, Kentucky, resulting in the deaths of two people at Chickasaw Park on Saturday. At Chickasaw Park, shots were fired into a crowd. This gunfire left two dead and four others injured. The police arrived at the scene around 9 p.m. following reports of the shooting. While there were hundreds of people present at the time of the attack, Louisville Deputy …
Wednesday night brought tragedy to the U.S. Army when two HH-60 Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopters operating with night vision goggles crashed during a training exercise in Trigg County, Kentucky. Nine lives were lost in total, with the identities of the soldiers yet to be released pending notification of their next-of-kin. All were based at Fort Campbell in the 101st Airborne Division, with five in one aircraft and four in the other. In the wake …
A 55-year-old man from Palm Coast, Florida, has been taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder. His criminal conviction is a result of a shooting that he initiated at a Best Western hotel in southwestern Kentucky. The gunfire took the life of an innocent bystander. Robert Pannell has also been charged with assault, wanton endangerment, disorderly conduct, menacing, and resisting arrest, according to the McCracken County Sheriff’s Office. The shooting occurred after an altercation …
Scarlett Tucker, 16, was fatally shot at a house in Burlington, Kentucky, early Tuesday morning, January 3. The Burlington Police Department said three other teenagers witnessed the incident — an 18-year-old male, an 18-year-old female, and a 17-year-old female. Their testimonies led the police to identify the suspect as 18-year-old Demarkus Hedges from Cincinnati. The deputies received a call reporting that someone was shot. At around 2:18 a.m., they went to the reported location, a …
A Lexington nurse accused of killing a patient was arraigned Friday morning. Eyvette Hunt is charged with killing James Morris when she was working as his nurse. Hunter appeared in jail to face charges at a circuit court hearing. The former nurse was charged with homicide, but defense lawyers withdrew their request to have her officially arraigned on Friday morning. A restraining order issued by Kentuckys nursing board details a day when Hunt would have …