By Christopher Harris
Commonwealth Journal May 11, 2021
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Monticello woman Constance Armstrong, 71, was injured crossing the street at this intersection between Central Avenue and East Mt. Vernon Street in Somerset on Tuesday afternoon. Carla Slavey I CJ
Over the course of two days, Somerset saw two different traffic accidents involving pedestrians on busy roadways.
On Tuesday at 12:24 p.m., Constance Armstrong, 71, of Monticello, was in downtown Somerset, attempting to cross from the north side sidewalk of East Mt. Vernon Street walking south at the intersection with N. Central Avenue, when she was struck by a 2016 Hyundai, according to the Somerset Police Department (SPD).Â
The two-member board voted unanimously to accept McNeil s resignation, effective May 5.
On April 23, they sent a letter to the chief informing him that they would not renew his contract, which was due to expire this August. They offered no explanation in the letter for the decision.
McNeil became chief of the Somerset Police Department in 2014. Before that, he served as a police lieutenant in Randolph.
Last Wednesday, 100 people tuned in to the selectmen meeting, held over Zoom, many of them to express their support for McNeil. They included Holly McNamara, who resigned as a selectman last month.
“He’s known throughout the entire county and I think this is a terrible decision, she told the board. “I think this is a personal vendetta. I know more than the public does, and that’s all I’ll say.”
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Sheriff Greg Speck reports that on May 5, 2021, Lieutenant Bobby Jones, Commander of the Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division appeared before the Pulaski County Grand Jury in the case of the murder of Leanna Brumley who had gone missing in May of 2019. The Pulaski County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Gerald Avalon Hendricks, age 55, of Shady Grove Road in Science Hill, KY with Murder and Tampering with Physical Evidence surrounding the murder of Leanna Brumley.
On May 6, 2021, Lieutenant Jones served the indictment on Gerald Alvalon Hendricks at the Pulaski County Detention Center where he had been previously lodged on unrelated charges.
Apr 30, 2021
A man accused of shooting his mother s boyfriend during an altercation has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Justin Scott Walters, 22, of Somerset, was indicted earlier this month on one count of second-degree Assault.
The charge stems from Somerset Police Department s investigation of a shooting incident that took place around 2 p.m. March 2 at a Ringgold Road residence.
According to SPD, officers arrived on scene to find Rodney Stevens, 41, with a gunshot wound near his ankle. Detective Larry Patterson learned that Walters and Stevens, who lives with Walters mother, got into a verbal altercation shortly after Walters arrived at the residence.
Terry L. Hensley
A local man charged with murder in connection to a fatal 2019 wreck has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
Terry Lynn Hensley, 48, of Nancy, pleaded guilty last Thursday to first-degree Manslaughter after participating in criminal mediation earlier in the week.
The charge stemmed from a fatal car wreck that occurred in the early morning hours of February 4, 2019, at the intersection of Grande Avenue and East Mt. Vernon Street in downtown Somerset.
According to what the Somerset Police Department reported at the time, Hensley was driving a 1996 Honda Civic north on Grande Avenue at a high rate of speed when the vehicle crossed East Mt. Vernon and struck a utility pole.