KSP investigating a shooting that involved an LPD officer
Officer involved shooting
and last updated 2021-05-01 23:38:37-04
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â On Saturday night, Lexington Police Chief Lawrence Weathers held a brief news conference concerning a shooting that involved an LPD officer.
Earlier Saturday, around 5:30 pm, Chief Weathers says Lexington Police officers were dispatched to a shots fired report in the 600-block of Marshall Lane.
While en route, Weathers says that the dispatch center received calls of someone outside shooting a firearm. An officer arrived and immediately observed gunfire. In response to the subject firing a weapon at the officer, the officer returned gunfire, striking the subject. The officer was not injured. The subject, a 21-year-old Black male sustained a serious injury to his front shoulder, which initially appears to be non-life-threatening at the scene, said Chief Weathers.
Jervis Middleton (Image: Lexington, KY, Police Department)
A Black Kentucky police officer in the Lexington Police Department was terminated late last week after being accused of supplying information about the police to a Black Lives Matter protester.
According to
The Lexington Herald Leader, after a nine-hour police hearing and more than two hours of deliberations behind closed doors, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council announced its decision to fire police officer Jervis Middleton shortly after 1 a.m. Friday.
Lexington Police Chief Lawrence Weathers and an internal police disciplinary board based the decision to fire Middleton for allegedly violating department policies for providing information to a friend, Sarah Williams, who is a Black Lives Matter protest leader.