Two people have died and three more have been injured this Sunday, including a policeman, after two shootings starring the same suspect at the Blue Grass airport and in a church in the city of Lexington, in Kentuckyin the southern United States.
The incident began at 11:36, local time (15:36 GMT) at the airport in the county of Fayettewhere “the suspect shot the police and then fled the scene” until he reached the Richmond Road Baptist Church, where the agents intercepted him, Kentucky state police reported.
In this scenariothe shooter killed two women And finally he was killed. Two more men have been injured, one of them with critical forecast and the other, stablehas reported the Lexington Police Chief, Lawrence Weathers.
The deceased have already been identified by the Forensic Office of Fayette County as Beverly Gumm, 72, and Kristina combs, 32.
“Please, pray for all those affected For these acts of meaningless violence, and we appreciate for the rapid response to the Lexington Police Department and the Kentucky State Police. Details are still emerging and we will share more information when available, “wrote the governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, In X.
The United States has registered at least 229 massive shootingsin which at least four people receive shots without counting the attacker, so far from 2025, according to the civil organization Gun Violence Archive.
Just two weeks ago, two firefighters and a shooter died from a shooting during a forest fire on June 29 IdahoState on the northern border of the United States, which motivated the deployment of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) before the report of an ambush.
