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The Murray Police Department reported two people are dead after a shooting near Murray State University’s campus on Tuesday.
MPD in a statement Wednesday said the department responded to the shooting at a home on Chestnut Street at 7:36 a.m., finding two adults and a child who appeared to have gunshot wounds.
Anthony Amoroso, 31, was pronounced dead at the scene by Calloway County Coroner Ricky Garland. Katherine Bryan, 46, and the child was transported by EMS to Murray-Calloway County Hospital and then taken to another hospital via helicopter. Bryan was later pronounced dead due to her injuries.
The president of Murray State University said a shooting Tuesday morning at a property next to campus sent multiple people to a local hospital, with no
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As many Kentuckians are planning to recognize the one-year mark of the death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of Louisville Metro Police Department officers, a group of Murray State University students are also working to honor her memory.
The MSU College Democrats will host a candlelight vigil Saturday at 6 p.m. in the Elizabeth Hall Amphitheater on Murray State’s campus. The group’s president, Ryan Ackermann, told WKMS the members of the College Democrats felt called to keep the spotlight on Taylor one year after her killing.
“We decided that it would be a very good thing to have a vigil for her in her memory, and honor her life,” Ackermann said.
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As Barkley Hughes and I rumbled around in his red utility vehicle last month, memories slowly unwound about his western Kentucky hometown.
Tolu, a historic Ohio River-bound community of less than a hundred, only makes up a few blocks before opening up into rolling farmland. Hughes openly admits it’s not near anywhere, but that’s part of the reason he came back.
He points to the Methodist church across the street he attended growing up. There’s the community center that would put together a “haunted house” around Halloween. There’s what used to be the general store in town, which he figures closed more than a decade ago because it’s hard to get deliveries out in a place so remote.