A man was shot in the chest early Tuesday morning at a Danville party.
Gerald M. Hughes was taken to Ephraim McDowell Hospital and then transferred to the University of Kentucky hospital.
Police are investigating the shooting.
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A 7-year-girl was taken to University of Kentucky Hospital after she was struck by a pickup in Danville, and the driver was charged with driving under the influence, Danville police said.
Shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, Ravyn McKitric was trying to cross Wilderness Road in front of her house when she was hit by a blue Dodge Dakota. The driver, Jerry Curtis, 55, of Danville, was also charged with having an open container in the vehicle in addition to DUI, police said.
Ravyn initially was taken to Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville and was later transferred to UK. Her updated condition was not immediately available Friday morning.
Curtis was released from the Boyle County jail Thursday night after a $300 bond was posted. He will be arraigned in Boyle District Court within the next couple of weeks.
Two teenage employees of Giovanni’s Pizza in Danville helped prevent a burglary of the business early Saturday morning by calling 911 and then acting as police officers.
Jerry Maxlow, a manager at Giovanni’s, said the employees, who live behind the business, were awoken by “a lot of banging and came outside to see what it was.”
Read more in the Danville Advocate-Messenger.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Opening statements are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning in the retrial of Steven Rios, a former Columbia police officer sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for the 2004 murder of 23-year-old University of Missouri student Jesse Valencia, who was from Danville.
On Monday morning, attorneys selected a Clay County jury of 12 primary and 3 alternate jurors for the trial, which will be held in Boone County Circuit Court. Later in the day, Judge Frank Conley denied a defense motion to suppress evidence from a Columbia police interview of Rios, now 31, conducted just days after Valencia’s death.
Read more in the Columbian Missourian.
By Greg Kocher
gkocher1@herald-leader.com
A fugitive wanted on an attempted murder charge was arrested Wednesday night by Danville police.
Percy Thompson, 21, of Chester, Pa., was found hiding in a house on Smith Street after Danville police received a tip about his location, said Danville police Capt. James Monroe.
The woman whom Thompson is accused of shooting in January has since died, so Thompson will face a murder charge when he returns to Pennsylvania, Monroe said.
The woman was shot after a drug transaction turned violent. Police took a statement from her before she died, as well as from another woman involved in the deal.
Other charges pending against Thompson include assault, robbery and receiving stolen property, Monroe said.
Police also charged Stephen Roth Jr., 22, with hindering apprehension on a felony level. Roth was at the house where police found Thompson hiding in an attic space amid insulation, Monroe said.
Thompson and Roth remain in the Boyle County jail. No bond has been set on Thompson, but a $5,000 cash bond has been set for Roth, according to the jail.
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Danville Police Chief Jay Newell said Wednesday that no charges will be filed in the case of a YouTube video depicting several boys making sexually explicit comments about two middle-school girls.
“From our officers’ review of the YouTube video, there are no threats or any illegal activity that we can see,” Newell said. “It’s some kids that have said some rude things and put it on YouTube. But there’s no law against being rude.”
In the 3½ -minute video posted over the weekend, one young man raps about the girls’ genitals while two other boys make a variety of gestures, some of which are lewd.
Doug Trantham, the father of one of the girls mentioned in the video, expressed disappointment that the boys will not be charged.
“Exceptionally displeased,” Trantham said. “Appalled would be a word. Very appalled at the failure of the legal judicial system.”
Newell said: “If we charged every middle schooler that said something about another middle schooler or that called them a bad name, if you think the justice system is bogged down now … .”
In order for the boys to be charged with harassment, Newell said, “we would have to have a continuing course of conduct that served to harass, alarm or annoy the victim.”
“Obviously, if there is a continuing course of conduct that we can look at and say this is harassing, … then we would see if there is something we could do with that,” Newell said. “Or if they get on there and say ‘Next time’ or ‘We’re going to show them and teach them a lesson,’ that’s different. That is at least an implied threat.”
The Danville Independent school district is also looking into the matter.