Saturday, December 26, 2009
Hardin County Officers Involved In Fatal Shooting
KENTUCKY....
Kentucky State Police say a fatal shooting which occurred in Hardin County on Christmas day involving two officers with the Radcliff Police Department ended tragically for a Tennessee man. According to police, 39 year old Thomas Everett of Elizabethton was being pursued by police in Vine Grove after receiving a report that he and his girlfriend failed to pay a bar bill. Authorities say, after Everett crashed his vehicle, he stole a police cruiser and sped away, striking a police officer. He was then followed to John Hardin High School where he stopped the car after getting a flat tire. As officers approached the vehicle, they say he appeared to be brandishing a pistol, resulting in Everett being shot multiple times. On Saturday, investigators revealed the pistol was a fake weapon. The officers have been placed on administrative leave while the investigation is ongoing.
Kentucky State Police say a fatal shooting which occurred in Hardin County on Christmas day involving two officers with the Radcliff Police Department ended tragically for a Tennessee man. According to police, 39 year old Thomas Everett of Elizabethton was being pursued by police in Vine Grove after receiving a report that he and his girlfriend failed to pay a bar bill. Authorities say, after Everett crashed his vehicle, he stole a police cruiser and sped away, striking a police officer. He was then followed to John Hardin High School where he stopped the car after getting a flat tire. As officers approached the vehicle, they say he appeared to be brandishing a pistol, resulting in Everett being shot multiple times. On Saturday, investigators revealed the pistol was a fake weapon. The officers have been placed on administrative leave while the investigation is ongoing.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 3:00 PM 
