Suspect kills 2 women in Kentucky church
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Kentucky State Police are taking over the probe into multiple shootings Sunday that left two members of a small Lexington church dead, two others wounded, and a trooper injured.
MARSHALL COUNTY, Ky. (KFVS) - A school resource officer has been charged following an investigation in western Kentucky. The Kentucky State Police (KSP) said on May 14, the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office requested KSP to investigate allegations against one of its deputies, 47-year-old James Steven Oakley of Benton, Ky.
According to Kentucky State Police, a trooper who was shot during a traffic stop on Terminal Drive received immediate help from a family of good Samaritans before crews arrived on the scene.
After barging into the church and realizing his apparent target wasn’t inside, the killer declared, “Well, someone’s gonna have to die, then” before he opened fire, witnesses said.
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