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LOUISVILLE, Ky. A woman riding a moped was killed Friday afternoon in a hit-and-run crash at Hikes and Goldsmith lanes, according to Louisville Metro Police.
Sixth Division officers responded about 3:45 p.m. Friday to the reported crash at the intersection of Hikes and Goldsmith lanes, with witnesses saying a passenger vehicle was heading west on Hikes Lane at a high rate of speed, LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell said.
The vehicle ran the red light and hit a moped that was traveling south on Goldsmith Lane and had the green light, Mitchell said.
The passenger vehicle then fled the scene by heading north on Bardstown Road, Mitchell said.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. A Louisville man was arrested Friday after he allegedly shot another man on West Market Street in Shawnee, according to police.
Morris Ivory Crook, also referred to in court records as Crook Morris, admitted to shooting the man in the butt about 4 a.m. Friday at an apartment building in the 3500 block of West Market Street, according to an arrest citation.
The man who was shot was in his 60s and taken to University of Louisville Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Louisville Metro Police spokesman Dwight Mitchell said.
Detectives who responded to the reported shooting found Crook, 64, at the scene and spoke with several witnesses, one of whom said Crook approached him after the shooting and admitted that he shot the man.
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