Kentucky Officer Involved Shootings

June 16, 2015. Grant County. A Grant County Deputy shot 22 year old Shane D. Propes, who has a "family" who hates him, who was living in Indian Hill Estates mobile home park. The story so far is that the man was shooting at the Deputy with an assault rifle, and the Deputy fired back, justifiably. The Deputy was unharmed, and Propes was flown to a hospital. No videotape has emerged of the alleged incident, and so far, none of the media outlets has reported the name of the public official who shot Propes. http://www.local12.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/Deputy-shoots-man-in-Crittenden-Police-investigating-150138.shtml http://www.kentucky.com/2015/06/16/3902774_grant-county-deputy-shot-man-who.html http://www.fox19.com/story/29327026/air-care-transports-grant-co-gunshot-wound-victim 

June 13, 2015. On South 4th Street and Oak Street in Louisville, Nathan Blanford, an LMPD officer, shot Deng Manyoun, and then Manyoun fell back, with blood all over, dead. Deng Manyoun was one of the "Lost Sudan Boys" from the Civil War in Sudan a few years ago. After being harassed, and possibly threatened by LMPD, Manyoun grabbed a small flag pole, and tried to hit Blanford with it. Blanford shot him twice, killing him. A video from a local convenience store shows the incident. A headline after the shooting disparages Manyoun because he "assaulted" two police officers before, many years ago, ignoring the violence that was used against him. http://www.wlky.com/news/lmpd-investigating-possible-officer-involved-shooting-at-4th-and-oak-streets/33566068

June 8, 2015. Stanford, Kentucky. Lincoln County. On a Saturday night, 32 year old Jasper McCann of Waynesburg was being chased by a Stanford city police officer. The Stanford police said they were called to the scene at 9:30pm over a “disturbance”. Jasper McCann drove his red pickup truck away when the Stanford police arrived. Jasper drove onto U.S. 150 to Wilderness Trail Road, which is a narrow single lane gravel driveway that dead-ends after 2 ½ miles. Then, allegedly, Jasper turned around and drove directly into the police vehicle. The Stanford cop fired shots at Jasper. Then Jasper ran on foot, eventually, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Curt Folger, barricading himself inside the attic of a detached garage at his mother’s residence on Berry Hollow Road for a while on Sunday, but law enforcement officers were able to talk him out of the house. McCann was arrested on several charges. including attempted murder of a police officer, first-degree fleeing or evading, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment and an outstanding warrant for a parole violation. McCann was booked into the Lincoln County Regional Jail. http://www.centralkynews.com/amnews/news/local/lincoln-man-arrested-for-attempted-murder-of-police-officer/article_b2b3cfc4-0e92-11e5-bb62-b3b653867875.html http://www.lex18.com/story/29268587/officer-involved-shooting-results-in-manhunt

May 27, 2015. Pike County, Wolfpit area. KSP said they asked Donald May to show his hands, after a "shots fired" 911 call. Instead, they say he opened fire on him. An unknown cop shot Donald May. May was taken to the hospital, treated and released. May is now behind bars, charged with four counts of attempted murder. There's no videotape of the alleged incident, even though one would assume a "shots fired" 911 phone call could go down ugly and bloody, which is more reason to tape record it, in case one is "forced" to shoot. http://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/One-Hurt-in-Officer-Involved-Shooting-in-Pike-County-Ky-305274601.html

May 20, 2015. Owensboro, Kentucky. Matt Conley (KSP), and 3 Owensboro Police - Troy Couch, Chris Hayes, and Matthew Ralph - were involved in killing 38 year old 175 lb 5'9" Chrislon Andrill Talbott at 8pm at Motel 6 on Fulton Drive in Owensboro on a Wednesday night. Chrislon to be at the motel on Frederica Street at midnight. His brother, Odis, said he wasn't sure why. “I was trying to call him, everybody in the family was trying to call him,” he told 14NEWS. Chrislon Andrill Talbott was arrested about 18 years ago on August 28, 1997 in Daviess County, Kentucky. In 2012, Talbott was convicted of some drug charge. Police say after several hours of trying to get Chrislon to come out of the motel room, he opened the door and started shooting. That's when officers say they fired back, hitting Talbott's body many times. All 4 officers got a paid vacation out of the shooting. The officers wanted to arrest Chrislon Talbott but he didn't want to be arrested. They established a perimeter and called three trained hostage negotiators to the scene to help de-escalate the situation, which the police, and Kentucky's entire judicial system, rarely do. After midnight, Chrislon Talbott exited the room and after an exchange in gun fire, the suspect was shot. Talbott was rushed to Owensboro Medical Hospital via ambulance where he died.
http://surfky.com/index.php/news/local/daviess/60840-kentucky-state-police-investigating-police-action-shooting-in-owensboro 725 Hathaway St Owensboro, KY 42303

May 19, 2015. Tompkinsville, Kentucky (Monroe County). On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at approx. 8:38 pm on W Phillipi Church Road an unknown KSP shot 27 year old Erik Pitcock of Mt. Hermon for unknown reasons. No video of the incident was released. KSP released scant information. Pitcock's injuries are non-life threatening. The investigation is still ongoing and being led by Jamie Heller, Tim Adams, and Don Wilson of the Kentucky State Police. http://www.kentuckystatepolice.org/posts/press/2015/post3_pr05_20_15.html http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/for_the_record/scant-details-on-officer-involved-shooting/article_e3ed05d6-b652-57e0-8cd3-3ec5568ab291.html
http://www.wbko.com/home/headlines/Officer-Involved-Shooting-Monroe-County-304361341.html

May 11, 2015. John Kennedy Fenwick was shot by Brian Voils, a Bardstown police officer on Parkway Drive, near Woodlawn Road, around 9 a.m. Sunday. It was said the man rammed his truck into the cop car after stopping for a brief moment. Fenwick is expected to live. Kyler Wright, another Bardstown officer, said that Fenwick was hanging out of the vehicle's window, yelling at the police officer, and that's why they tried to pull him over. Bardstown Police Chief said he was glad that man was white, because nobody gives a fuck about a white man being shot, raped, or murdered. Verdict: undetermined. Their story doesn't make sense. No camera footage was disclosed, if recorded at all. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/13/kentucky-sheriff-white-suspect_n_7274606.html http://www.wlky.com/news/new-information-to-be-released-in-nelson-county-officerinvolved-shooting/32927606 http://www.wlky.com/news/kentucky-state-police-on-scene-of-officerinvolved-shooting/32919038 http://www.wdrb.com/story/29025106/kentucky-state-police-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-in-bardstown-area

May 9, 2015. John C. Smith, 51 of Eddyville, Kentucky was shot by KSP Eric C. Fields, but Smith lived. Fields said Smith pointed a gun at Fields, and Fields told him to put the gun down, and he didn't, so he shot him. It seems weird that John C. Smith would point a gun at Eric C. Fields, and not shoot. Smith had a bunch of guns and drugs, methamphetamine specifically. No body camera of the incident was recorded or released. Verdict: Undetermined.

May 5, 2015. McCracken County Sheriff's Deputy, Cory Golightly, while at a private wedding in Carlisle County, at Bardwell Baptist Church, "accidentally" shot his mother when his gun fell out of his jacket, he says. No video of the incident has surfaced. Verdict: Undetermined. http://news.sky.com/story/1478315/cop-accidentally-shoots-his-mother-at-wedding

May 4, 2015. Perry County. Constable Ben Stidham shoots and kills Michael Asher. "Micheal Asher was shooting at a coyote and The constable, Ben Stidham is the one who called the cops but he only shot one time and cops shot him inside his camper 7 times and he did not come to the door later that next day they found bullets hole inside the camper and they shot the neighbors house.. Micheal Asher didn't even have a gun on him ... cops are a joke and liars... I feel sorry for his family and the people that lived in the trailer in front of him..... its a shame that cops have the right to kill innocent people there was 7 cops standing in this guy yard with guns held up wouldn't any body be scared to go out and that guy could not hear good when the cops shot him they all laughing about it cops should have to wear body cams since they are so out of control." http://www.topix.com/forum/city/hazard-ky/TTGNOCKF5K5RB8VV5#c11 http://www.wkyt.com/wymt/home/headlines/Police-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-in-Perry-County-302391481.html http://www.kentuckystatepolice.org/posts/press/2015/post13_pr05_04_15.html Verdict: MURDER.

April 19, 2015. Wilmore, Kentucky. Jessamine County. KSP, Richmond post, was called just after 1:30am on April 19, 2015. 2 Wilmore city cops, Jim Parret and Jay Eldridge, were on Hinkle Street just before 1:15 am, and there was an “exchange of gunfire”, and 40 year old Michael Foster was killed. Cops said they shot him when he didn't comply with their demands, not when a gun was pointed at them, showing incredible restraint (since “pulling a gun” is when a murder is justified). There is no videotape. Michael Foster had called 911 and said that he was going to kill himself, so the Wilmore cops went ahead and assisted his suicide by shooting him down. The Wilmore police chief said that Michael Foster was sitting in his vehicle, with the door open, and his feet were on the ground. The 2 Wilmore cops got paid vacations for the murder. Verdict: Possible Murder. http://www.wkyt.com/news/state/headlines/Man-killed-in-Wilmore-officer-involved-shooting-300578161.html http://www.kentuckystatepolice.org/posts/press/2015/post7_pr04_19_15.html http://www.kentucky.com/2015/04/19/3809168_wilmore-man-killed-by-police-had.html?rh=1 http://www.centralkynews.com/jessaminejournal/news/local/man-shot-killed-by-wilmore-police-during-armed-confrontation/article_48cf0a06-e66f-11e4-9e4e-67033c6af1c5.html 

April 19, 2015. 40 year old Michael Foster was shot dead by unidentified Wilmore City Police on Hinkle Street in Jessamine County. Foster was shot multiple times. No video camera footage, no body camera recorded. It was said Foster had a gun, but the officer interviewed didn't know if the gun was pointed at the officers, and they wanted to see his autopsy results. Verdict: Undetermined. Maybe murder. http://www.wkyt.com/news/state/headlines/Man-killed-in-Wilmore-officer-involved-shooting-300578161.html

April 9, 2015. Louisville Police Shooting. Man dead. Man's name wasn't mentioned. It was near Lassiter Middle School on 840 Flicker Rd, Louisville, KY 40214 around 8 p.m. Rondall Carpenter and Zachary Cooke killed the man. They came to the scene after a “shots fired” phone call. “They told him to put the gun down and that was it. He didn't put it down and I heard a lot of gun shots”, a witness said. Verdict: Seemingly justified, because cops said the man was raising a gun at them, but then again, they say a lot of things. No body camera video, or any other video, of the incident was recorded. This was the second man Rondall Carpenter killed. He killed another man in October 2014. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-shot-killed-in-confrontation-with-louisville-police/

April 2, 2015. 3^rd shooting in 5 months in Florence. Cops said that a 16 year old was about to pick up a rifle, and a cop shot him in the leg, and he lived, after surgery. No body camera video of the incident was recorded. Verdict: seemingly justified. http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/boone-county/florence/teen-shot-by-officer-in-florence-ky-foot-chase

March 30, 2015. Elizabethtown Police. 29 year old Bryan Herbert was shot dead. Cop says man was assaulting a woman, and brandished a gun, so they shot him dead. Verdict. Seemingly justified. No body camera of the incident was recorded.

http://www.wdrb.com/story/28655456/kentucky-state-police-identify-man-fatally-shot-by-elizabethtown-police-officer

March 28, 2015. Louisville, Kentucky. 25 year old Tracy L. McCraw of the 4900 block of Wellsworth avenue was shot dead by LMPD (Louisville police) officers Brad Schuhmann and Michael McLaurine. Justin Haydock was also listed as getting a paid vacation (“administrative leave”) after the incident. Tracy McCraw allegedly robbed a man at gunpoint on Melody Acres Lane, and fired two shots at him as he tried to run away. Louisville Metro Police Officers found McCraw nearby, near Cane Run Road, after neighbors pointed to his hiding spot, and he fled, allegedly firing at the officers behind him. Both Schuhmann and McLaurine returned fire; McCraw was hit six times in the back. http://www.wlky.com/news/police-investigating-shooting-near-cane-run-road/25223458 http://www.wave3.com/story/25105217/man-who-died-in-officer-involved-shooting-identified http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2014/03/29/lmpd-officer-involved-shooting-second-seven-months/7055359/

January 23, 2015. Independence, Kentucky. Boone County. KSP said that 27 year old father Allen Berly Todd Jr. was a suspect in an armed robbery on Thursday morning at the Magnuson Hotel, so they killed him dead, after he ran, and “did not comply” with their orders, after the chase. A Kenton County police officer was one of the shooters near Cody Road, as well as a Ludlow Police officer. The car chase started at 1:15am on Mall Road. Todd drove southbound I-75, getting off the Mt. Zion exit, and crashing his car as he tried to get back onto the Interstate. Todd ran towards a wooded area off of Carol Ann Lane, and when he didn't “comply” with cops' demands, he was shot dead. Boone County police, Independence police, Covington police, and KSP were all involved in the manhunt. Todd had a “weapon”, but cops didn't say what. Some guy suspected it may have been a pellet BB gun, though that's unconfirmed. The robbery of the hotel was also unconfirmed. No videotape of the incident was released, if at all recorded. http://eaglecountryonline.com/local-article/n-ky-officer-involved-shooting-leaves-suspect-dead/ http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/kenton-county/independence/boone-county-robbery-suspect-shot-in-independence-ky

January 19, 2015. 66 year old Carter Ray Castle, a Magoffin County man (Gunlock), was shot because, as cops say, he pointed a gun at them. The cops, unidentified Magoffin County Sheriff's office police, say Carter Ray Castle was standing in his yard with a gun when they pulled up the scene, and they tased him, but that didn't work, and Carter pulled the gun, so they killed him. There's no body camera footage of the incident, and we have to take the word of a news outlet that interviewed a cop who wasn't there, telling the stories of the murdering police officers who weren't identified. Verdict: Lack of information, lack of names, lack of video camera, only one side of the story is being told, possible murder. http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Magoffin-man-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-289038021.html http://www.kentucky.com/2015/01/19/3649671_magoffin-county-man-shot-by-police.html?rh=1

January 15, 2015. Crab Orchard, Kentucky. 69-year old Howard Robbins was ran over by Travis Richardson, killing him. Howard Robbins did nothing wrong. The only thing Howard Robbins did wrong was being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Howard Robbins was walking on US 150 in Crab Orchard when a cop ran him over... drugs? Drunk? Just a stupid moron driver? Richardson is a police officer. Verdict: Involuntary manslaughter. http://www.wtvq.com/story/d/story/troopers-elderly-crab-orchard-man-hit-and-killed/28916/WliUZs8Bs0S_AssObD-y7A 

January 5, 2015. Darryl Jouett of Erlanger, Ky, an off-duty, plain clothes Kentucky police officer accidentally shoots himself in an elevator, without provocation, in Cincinnati, while putting his gun back into his holster, after fumbling with it for a second. Verdict: Accident. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/kentucky-cops-accidentally-shoots-elevator-video-article-1.2066553

January 1, 2015. Olive Hill, Kentucky. Carter County. KSP said they were responding to a domestic violence incident involving a fire arm on Wednesday night. KSP said they tried to contact the male inside the home on the phone and through a PA system. KSP (all officers unnamed) said they saw a male subject (of the King?) with a handgun assaulting a female resident. KSP said “the male” then fired the handgun through a window toward officers. Then one of the KSP men fired one shot at the male, killing him. The female victim was taken to the hospital for injuries sustained during the domestic assault. No officers were injured. No videotape was released. http://www.wowktv.com/story/27741437/a-domestic-violence-call-turns-into-fatal-officer-involved-shooting-in-carter-county-ky

December 2, 2014. Florence, Kentucky. A 16-year-old, who is not being identified at this time, shot himself in the head after fleeing from police. Tuesday, Roger Allen responded to a complaint of marijuana in a guest room on the second floor of the Super 8 in the 7900 block of Dream St. around 11:45 a.m. The rat told police that there were unattended children screaming and marijuana smoke was rolling out of the room. When Allen arrived to the room he could hear children crying and smelled marijuana. The room was occupied by two 16-year-old males, and 18-year-old male and three small children ranging from five months to three years old. When Allen asked for identification of the older people in the room, one of the 16-year-old boys produced a gun and began firing at Allen. Allen was able to take cover in the bathroom and close the door behind him. Police say the teen fired through the closed door and Allen returned fire. http://www.fox19.com/story/27526952/breaking-officer-injured-in-shooting-incident-at-super-8-motel-in-florence-boone-county-sheriffs-department-confirms “Shortly after the loud bangs I heard two or three people run by my room saying ‘we need to get out, we need to get out,'” said Jared Ely, who was staying at the hotel. The shooter fled the room and was seen with a bag in the first floor hallway. Witnesses say he pulled a weapon from the bag and shot himself once in the head. He was found dead in the hallway by emergency responders on the first floor. There is no video of the altercation. Verdict: MURDER (over pot? The drug war is bullshit).

October 28, 2014. Rondall Carpenter was involved in another officer-involved shooting in October 2014 in Valley Station. In October, Rondall Carpenter and Skyler Graudick shot and killed 38-year-old William Chad Mattingly after a traffic stop on 11000 Grafton Hall Road. It's said that Mattingly fired a shot at the officers before he was killed. It was around 7:50pm on Tuesday when officers pulled a car over on Glen Hill Manor Drive for an unknown violation. As the officers got out of their car, the car they stopped took off. Conrad said the driver sped around a corner onto Grafton Hall Road, then pulled into a driveway. Then he ran off. Cops said he fired a shot at them. Rondall Carpenter and Skylar Graudick, were wounded. Police did arrest two of the men in the car with Mattingly. Both were wanted on outstanding warrants. Mattingly's cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds. Mattingly was shot dead, and the officers were not hit. Verdict: Seemingly Justified, even though no video of the incident was released, if even recorded.

October 2, 2014. US Marshals, Louisville biker police unit, and the SWAT team were a part of an 8 hour standoff with 39 year old Tracy Wade over a violation of probation over forgery charges on Roaming Plains Court. Eric Culver, Sgt. Paul Humphrey, Officer Brad Harris and Detective Michael Simpson were the officers involved in killing her. They said she refused to lower her weapon. Around 11 p.m., police say she agreed to surrender. As the SWAT team approached the house to meet her, she allegedly pointed a gun at them. They opened fire, hitting her multiple times. Wade's 18-month-old son was present, but not hurt during the incident. Verdict: MURDER.

September 23, 2014. Marc Christiansen shot and killed 28 year old John Jolly Jr., a father of five, after responding to a domestic call on Esquire Alley in the Russellville neighborhood. Police say there were "some signs" he pointed it at Christiansen and the officer fired eight rounds, striking Jolley in the torso and head. Jolley's sister, Lanita Shields, acknowledges she wasn't there that night, but finds it difficult to believe her brother, who worked two full-time jobs as a forklift operator and had never been in trouble, pointed a gun at an officer. He didn't do drugs or drink, she said. He took care of his children and his mother. Loved ones described John Jolly Jr. differently, saying he didn’t drink or do drugs, and that he was a good person. Police couldn't say if there was a domestic violence history between the two, but neighbors didn't report problems. David Summers said he heard a series of shots as he lay in bed early Tuesday morning. “It was a single shot, then it was like two seconds and then it was the other eight,” he said. http://www.wlky.com/news/man-killed-in-officerinvolved-shooting-in-louisville/28199656 Verdict: Possible Murder.

September 13, 2014. In Richmond, Madison County, Jesse Gibbons, 29, was murdered by eight officers from three agencies: 2 Lexington police officers, Donnell Gordon and Clay Atchison; five deputies from the Madison County Sheriff's Office: Sgt. Derek Thomas, Sgt. Chris Sizemore, and deputies Eric Short, Charles "Buster" Dargavell and Steve Gibbs; and state trooper Aaron Hall. It's possible that it was all over protecting his pet cat. Gibbons was struck by eight rounds that penetrated his abdomen, chest, left hip, right thigh, right leg, left thigh and right forearm. A total of five rounds was recovered from Gibbons' chest, abdomen, right hip, scrotum and right tibia. All the weapons fired — except for trooper Hall's — were .40-caliber Glock 22s. Hall fired a .40-caliber Glock 35. All the officers except Hall fired Speers Gold Dot 165 Grain Bonded hollow point bullets. Hall fired Speers Gold Dot 155 Grain Bonded hollow point bullets. Investigators collected 67 shell casings from the shooting scene. The media lied, and said that Gibbons pointed “what officers thought was a firearm but was actually a stun gun that fell into Gibbons' vehicle during a struggle with a Lexington police officer”. It was probably planted, if one was found at all. The police's internal investigation didn't specify which officers shot Gibbons because all fired the same caliber gun and virtually the same type of hollow point bullets. A Madison County grand jury decided last month not to indict any of the many shooters in the murder. Verdict: MURDER. http://www.state-journal.com/local%20news/2015/05/28/man-killed-in-richmond-by-police-was-shot-8-times http://www.kentucky.com/2015/05/27/3871621/police-shot-man-eight-times-after.html http://www.richmondregister.com/news/local_news/no-indictments-in-officer-involved-shooting/article_15796bc6-e3bb-11e4-bbb9-37913244fc80.html

April 29, 2014. Samantha Ramsey murdered by Tyler Brockman, a Boone County Sheriff's Deputy, in cold blood, for no reason. Verdict: MURDER. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/police-release-dash-cam-footage-scene-kentucky-deputy-shot-woman-19-death-field-party-article-1.1772647

2015

April 2014. Edwin Caldwell murdered Gary Burdine. Verdict: Possible Murder. No charges were filed. No videotape of the incident was recorded. http://www.wcpo.com/news/region-northern-kentucky/ksp-officer-involved-shooting-reported-in-gallatin-county

March 26, 2014. In Barron County, at Barren Outdoors, a gun shop, Darrell Smith shot two of his fingers off with a loaded .380-caliber handgun, a gun that he asked to see. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/13/former-cop-sues-kentucky-hunting-store-after-accidentally-shooting-off-his-own-finger/ Verdict: Cop shot himself. 

March 2014. 53 year old Albert William Keyes was said to have tried to attack the police with a little knife. The Louisville police wasted no time in executing Keyes on the spot with 15 rounds. Law enforcement officers in Louisville have shot and killed five people in 2014 — more than in the last five years combined. Keyes, a fugitive bank robber, was shot dead by Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies on March 11 after a chase. Keyes finally stopped in a parking lot off Poplar Level Road. He scrawled "can't take the world no more to much pain" on a cardboard box. Then he stepped out of his truck, wielding a pocket knife, and charged at the deputies surrounding him. Deputies Ben Bryant and Lawrence Elery shot him.

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2014/12/12/people-dying-louisville-police-shootings/20262315/

November 19, 2013. Muldraugh, Kentucky. Meade County. KSP, Meade County, Muldraugh, Brandenburg, and West Point officers descended upon John L. Price over a "welfare check", and then, the media reported, at least, that John L. Price, even though he had a gun, and pointed it at the officers, eventually "shot himself", as if that's a likely story. No videotape of the incident was recorded, and the police are clearly lying. Verdict: MURDER.
http://www.wave3.com/story/24013485/ksp-trooper-involved-in-muldraugh-shooting 

February 26, 2013. Warren County. Tommy Brown, a part-time office employe for the Warren County Sheriff, resigned from his court security post after the grand jury failed to indict him for the killing 27 year old youth theater director and former Warren County Constable Brandon Bradshaw. Tommy Brown shot Brandon Bradshaw three times on February 26, 2013 in the parking lot of Michelle’s Consignment on U.S. 31-W By-Pass. Tommy Brown felt that Brandon Bradshaw's vehicle drove too close to his vehicle in traffic on the By-Pass, and Tommy Brown drove up next to Brandon Bradshaw, while still on the road, and asked him if he was still a Constable. Then Tommy Brown ordered Brandon Bradshaw to pull over, and Brandon did, pulling into the same consignment shop parking lot next to the Enterprise Rent-A-Car parking lot that Brown was already sitting at. Once Brandon's truck was in the parking lot, then Tommy Brown got out of his vehicle, and walked towards Brandon Bradshaw’s truck. A KSP witness said that Bradshaw had a gun, but that's unconfirmed. The lawyer for Bradshaw's estate said that it was impossible for Ashley Crowe, the KSP witness, to have observed what she claimed, given her vantage point at the scene. Tommy Brown's shooting wounded Brandon Bradshaw in his arm, hand and at the base of his skull. Bradshaw died from his wounds on March 2 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. A lawsuit was filed on behalf of Bradshaw's estate which named Tommy Brown, Warren County Sheriff Jerry “Peanuts” Gaines, Randy Hargis, Bowling Green Police Department Chief Doug Hawkins, Kevin Wiles, former Kentucky State Police Post 3 commander Bobby Murray, as well as other “unknown agents of all three law enforcement bodies”, the city of Bowling Green, and Medical Center EMS as defendants. Heidi Bradshaw, Brandon's wife, now widow, claims a member of a responding agency reported that Bradshaw was “10-7” – police code for deceased – before EMS personnel approached Bradshaw and found he still had a strong pulse, causing at least a seven-minute delay of possibly life-saving medical treatment, and that law enforcement failed to preserve evidence that may have shed light on the events surrounding the shooting. Heidi Bradshaw's attorney, Brad Sowell, told WBKO she voluntarily dismissed all of her claims for unknown reasons. No videotape of the incident emerged. Verdict: MURDER. http://www.wbko.com/home/headlines/Judge-Dismisses-Lawsuit-in-Brandon-Bradshaw-Case-282577241.html http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/bradshaw-s-widow-files-civil-lawsuit/article_4de50534-8892-5c65-8e65-4942270ae523.html

February 2013. Thomas Brown, an off-duty Warren County sheriff's deputy, killed Brandon Bradshaw, 27, of Bowling Green at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of Michelle's Consignment Shop near the 1100 block of U.S. 31 Bypass. http://www.wsmv.com/story/21385501/bowling-green-officer-involved-in-shooting Verdict: possible murder.

September 4, 2012. 54 year old Chauncey Carthan was drunk, in plain clothes, in an unmarked police car, off-duty, when he stopped a speeding Ishmael Gough, 24, during a Sept. 4, 2012 traffic stop that quickly escalated. Carthan stopped the man and ordered him out of the car. Unarmed Ishmael Gough, 24, who feared for his life at the hands of a man he said never showed a badge or called for backup. Carthan claimed Gough lunged at him and he responded by shooting him in the thigh, then stood over him with his gun still pointed. Carthan had been drinking brandy before he started driving and had a BAL of 0.14. Judge Mary Shaw ordered Carthan to pay a $500 fine and attend an alcohol intoxication class. Verdict: GUILTY of official misconduct, and shooting a man. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/drunk-ex-cop-not-guilty-ky-shooting-unarmed-man-article-1.2084776

August 12, 2012. Bowling Green, Kentucky. Gregory Harrison, 46, of Brownsville, was shot and killed by BGPD Officer Keith Casada Jr. on Aug. 12, 2012, on the railroad tracks in the 1100 block of Clay Street. Greg was drunk and stumbling around. The federal complaint names Casada, BGPD Chief Doug Hawkins, Lt. Col. Kevin Wiles, Maj. Melanie Watts and Sgt. Donitka Kay as defendants, along with the city. Logsdon said this morning. Harrison was unarmed and about 73 feet from the nearest BGPD officer when he was struck once with a round from an AR-15 rifle Harrison was not suspected of a serious crime, nor did he pose an immediate threat to the safety of the police officers or others, nor was he attempting to flee or actively resisting arrest. “We treat animals with more care than we did this poor, disabled, mentally challenged human being, and it really bothers me.” Verdict: MURDER. http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/bgpd-officer-involved-in-early-morning-shooting/article_492550d8-e48c-11e1-b225-0019bb2963f4.html http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/bgpd-city-sued-in-deadly-shooting/article_fd1d9b8a-f2fd-5c96-bb8e-bff6eb881bc3.html http://www.kentucky.com/2012/08/12/2296870_police-shoot-kill-bowling-green.html

April 21, 2011. On the Watterson Expressway, where Breckenridge Road intersects it, Leon Brackens was beaten to death by 4 unnamed white male LMPD officers. Verdict: MURDER in the 1st Degree, by at least 4 Louisville police officers. 

September 2008. LMPD Jonathan Osborne shot somebody. In June 2015, he was arrested for beating his wife, and also charged with attempted assault of an officer by body fluid. 

October 2006. Police shoot another officer, David Whitlock. http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/bowling-green-police-officer-david-whitson-fatally-shot/article_ef16c29c-395b-5a46-bdb1-aa8d9ce6b970.html Verdict: Manslaughter ("Friendly fire").

January 3, 2004. Louisville, Kentucky. On 46th and Market Street in Louisville's West End at 11:45pm, late at night, 19-year-old Black man Michael Newby was murdered by plain clothes white male McKenzie “Menace” Mattingly who was entrapping Michael Newby at Discount Liquor Store at 4600 block of Market Street by trying to sell him crack cocaine, and when Michael Newby rejected McKenzie Mattingly's “drug deal gone bad”, Mattingly immediately pulls out his firearm, and surprises Michael Newby by claiming he was the police. Michael Newby immediate took off and ran down the street in his tennis shoes. Then crack dealing plain clothes McKenzie Mattingly shot Michael Newby 3 times in the back, killing him. Verdict: MURDER.

April 13, 2002. On the evening of April 13, 2002, Pulaski County Sheriff Sam Catron was assassinated by Danny Shelley. Catron was killed as a result of a plot concocted by Kenneth White and Jeff Morris. White and Morris influenced Danny Shelley, an OxyContin addict, to carry out their plot. White, who had recently been a DEA informant, led the gullible Shelley to believe that Catron was on the verge of arresting him. The plan called for Shelley to use Morris' motorcycle to escape after he shot Catron, and to meet with Morris and White later. However, Morris' real plan was to meet up with Shelley, kill him under a pretense of self-defense, and pin all of the blame for Catron's death on Shelley. Morris hoped this would make him a local hero and ensure his election as sheriff. After the election, White would then run the county with Morris as his puppet. The plot, which they had conceived earlier that day while at Wal-Mart in Somerset, backfired. Catron was campaigning at the Shopville Fire Department. As he opened the trunk of his vehicle, Shelley opened fire. Shelley stopped at the ridge line overlooking the Shopville Fire Department and was immediately spotted by law enforcement. During the ensuing pursuit, Shelley took a wrong turn and wrecked Morris' motorcycle. After he was caught, he quickly implicated Morris, who, in turn, implicated White. All three were sent to prison. Kenneth White is a prisoner of Kentucky State Reformatory. Shelley is serving a life sentence at Little Sandy Correctional Complex in Sandy Hook. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Catron

December 5, 2002. Brian Luckett and Michael O'Neil, two white men, wearing plain clothes, was walking by an apartment on 709 East Catherine Street on December 2002. 50 year old Black man James Taylor was handcuffed and sitting down, and according to Michael O'Neil, James Edward Taylor pulled out a 3 inch blade, or a box cutter, and stood up from his chair, and started lunging at him, with his hands still in handcuffs behind his back, with the intent to stab him. Michael O'Neil's reaction to this was to shoot James Edward Taylor 12 times, into the front of his body, murdering James Edward Taylor in cold blood at point blank range. Verdict: MURDER.

August 22, 2002. Louisville, Kentucky. African-American Marshall Mably was shot 16 times in his car by white Caucasian male LMPD officers James Kaufling and Jefferson Atkins, and then afterwards, LMPD officers tampered with evidence by planting a BB gun on 42-year-old Marshall Marbley, as several witnesses stated. Verdict: MURDER.

October 30, 2001. White male LMPD officer Clayton Patton murders Black man Jason Cravens by shooting him in the stomach. “David Stengel has not found any criminal conduct in any instance of police officers killing human beings in this community,” said Reverend Louis Coleman III. Verdict: MURDER.

February 2001. Louisville, Kentucky, 20-year-old Antwan D. Bryant was killed by an LMPD officer when the driver of the car he was riding in allegedly ran over a cop's feet during a traffic stop. The cop shot at the driver but killed Antwan. Verdict: Manslaughter (accidental murder).

January 9, 2001. Louisville, Kentucky. In Louisville's West End, a young Black man, Clifford Lewis Jr. is shot and murdered by many plain clothes white male LMPD officers in the parking lot of White Owl Liquors on Wilson and Dixie highway. No guns, nor drugs, were found on Lewis, or in his system, after the autopsy. Verdict: MURDER.

June 25, 2000. Louisville, Kentucky. 4 Black LMPD officers—Derrick Leachman, Fred Helm, Willie Williams, and Maurice Hendricks—murdered Rodney Abernathy in Chickasaw park at 3am in the morning. While Williams didn't shoot, he did help cover up. Verdict: MURDER.

May 1999. Louisville, Kentucky. The Cold-blooded murder of 18 year old Black man Desmond Rudolph by white male LMPD officers Chris Horn and Paul Kincade for no apparent got the KKK out to celebrate the success of Louisville's finest. Verdict: MURDER.

January 6, 1998. Louisville, Kentucky. The Cold-blooded murder of 34 year old Adrian Reynolds by 32 year old Jailer Timothy “The Hulk” Barnes for no apparent reason in the basement of the Hall of Justice in Cell 6 happened when Big “hulkish” white male Timothy Barnes, along with 4 other Jefferson County Jailers, whose names were unreported by the Leviathan-protecting, parroting corporate media, murdered Adrian Reynolds, a black man, by stomping his head into the cold concrete basement floor with boots many times. Verdict: MURDER.

March 13, 1997. Louisville, Kentucky. White male LMPD officer Rodney J. Estes invaded 45 year old Black man Robert Whitlow's home and shot him twice with a submachine gun, which was “the result of his own intentional misconduct”. Verdict: MURDER.

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Tracy McCraw, 25 shot dead. Tracy McCraw allegedly robbed a man at gunpoint on Melody Acres Lane, and fired two shots at him as he tried to run away. Louisville Metro Police Officers Brad Schuhmann and Michael McLaurine found McCraw nearby and he fled, firing at the officers behind him. Both Schuhmann and McLaurine returned fire; McCraw was hit six times in the back.

William Chad Mattingly, 38.

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January 19, 2002.

Campbell County

Ellison, 34, suffered only minor wounds, although he was shot in the chest with a shotgun. He suffered abrasions on his chest and graze wounds to his head and upper leg. He was released from University Hospital Friday night.

The suspect, who had not been identified as of Friday night, allegedly held up a bank in Paris, Ky., then fled north, shooting at pursuing officers and stealing at least four vehicles along the way, an FBI official said. No other officers were injured.

Sgt. Ellison spotted the man driving a stolen pickup truck at about 3:30 p.m. on U.S. 27 near Moreland Drive. He pulled the vehicle over, but the driver came out with a shotgun and fired, striking Sgt. Ellison in the chest.

Brandon Gross, 16, of Alexandria, who was standing between the car wash and the gas station, said police swarmed the area.

“The officers yelled, "Drop your gun! Drop your gun!' The man yelled back, "No, I'm not going to do it.' Then I heard two shots.”

James Kirk, 46, of Shelbyville. Mr. Kirk fled in the pickup and shot the windows out of another Campbell County police cruiser but missed the officer behind the wheel. Mr. Kirk eventually shot himself when police from several departments surrounded him at a gas station. He was declared dead at the scene. Kentucky Bank in Paris

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BOWLING GREEN, KY (WSMV) -

The Kentucky State Police is investigating a shooting outside a Cabela's in Bowling Green.

A Bowling Green police officer shot a man allegedly trying to shoplift an AR-15 assault rifle, according to Trooper First Class Jonathan Biven. Biven said troopers received the call at 7:53 p.m. Saturday about an officer-involved shooting on Ken Bale Boulevard in Bowling Green. The man allegedly placed the rifle into his waistband, according to Biven. As an officer in a marked police car arrived on scene, the subject then began to run away. Biven said the man stopped, then reached into his waistline to pull out the rifle. The KSP spokesman said the police officer fired his service weapon, striking the subject in the lower backside. The suspect was flown to Skyline Medical Center in Nashville for non-life-threatening injuries. KSP is handling the investigation because this is an officer-involved shooting. Biven could not comment on whether the rifle was loaded or whether the subject had ammunition. http://www.wsmv.com/story/27623053/ksp-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-in-bowling-green-ky

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Kentucky Bank in Paris

4-2-2015; The subjects (to the King) involved in Thursday's shooting were both juveniles. The incident began around 1:30 a.m., when an officer out on patrol spotted them walking along Lacresta Drive and identified them as "suspicious individuals" (because of how they were dressed). The two 16-year-old boys initially cooperated with the officer (unnamed), who took one of the two into custody and found a rifle on him, said Florence Police Capt. Tom Grau. The second boy fled, however. Other officers who had by then responded chased the boy around the corner of a home, where he picked up a rifle from the ground. The 16-year-old "was given multiple verbal commands to drop the rifle but did not comply," Grau said

http://www.wlwt.com/news/teen-gunman-shot-wounded-by-florence-police-officer/32148144

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And in December, police officers in Kenton County shot and killed an armed robbery suspect, Allen Berly Todd, Jr., in Independence. Investigators have released very little information about the circumstances of the shooting. Todd was accused of robbing a Florence hotel, leading officers on a car chase, and then fleeing on foot. He was located nine hours later in Independence, and investigators say Todd raised a weapon at officers and would not lower it when ordered to do so.