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The man’s parents, Dennis and Gina Barton, filed suit in federal court on Oct. 8 against Whitley County, the detention center, the fiscal court, Jailer Jason Wilson, several jail employees and ...
The mother of a man in custody at a Kentucky jail is suing the jailer and employees after her son died in a full-body restraint in their care.
The son of a man who was murdered inside a Kentucky federal prison says investigators have long known who was responsible for his father’s death and questions why prosecution took so long.
Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea. Bethea was executed by hanging on 14 August 1936 for the rape of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. He had also confessed to her murder by strangling but the Commonwealth indicted him only on the rape charge since that was the only capital crime for which the penalty was public hanging.
An officer was on patrol when he heard gunfire and saw Trawick and a 23-year-old man, who had just shot and wounded a man in a robbery, fleeing the scene with handguns. One of the suspects allegedly fired at the officer, who returned fire, fatally wounding Trawick.
A third officer also with the Prestonsburg Police Department, Jacob R. Chaffins, died in the hospital on July 1, the day after the shooting. K9 police dog Drago also died on the scene. [1] Three other officers were injured; two remained hospitalized in stable condition, while the third was treated and released.
David McAtee was the youngest child of Odessa Riley and James McAtee, and had eight siblings. He owned and operated YaYa's BBQ Shack, a popular barbeque restaurant in Louisville's predominantly black West End neighborhood, [8] a food desert, and was a "beloved fixture" of his community.
The lawsuit, filed by the man’s mother and former partner, says Leon Scott warned staff he was receiving death threats after he testified against another inmate. Butts County jail inmate died by ...