LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Two people died in a crash Wednesday afternoon in Bullitt County.
Hillview Police Lt. Wyatt Rossell said the crash happened around 3:30 p.m. on Preston Highway at Old Preston Highway near Marketplace Drive.
The crash involved a pickup truck and SUV. Police said two people in the pickup died at the scene.
The driver of the SUV was injured and taken by ambulance to a hospital for treatment. There has been no update on the driver’s condition.
Police said a reconstruction team is investigating the crash.
Newly released body camera footage from Louisville Metro Police shows two tense encounters between armed suspects and officers that police say prompted them to fire their guns, resulting in two deaths.
The first incident took place in the 4700 block of Crawford Avenue around 11 p.m. May 10 after LMPD officers were dispatched to the area in Pleasure Ridge Park to follow up on a report of an armed individual, identified as Pierce.
On Friday, LMPD Deputy Chief Steve Healey said police and emergency services had been dispatched to a residence earlier that day when Pierce called for medical assistance.
The incidents happened within days of one another and involved four officers who fired their weapons.
Nicholas A. Pierce, 43, was shot during a police call May 10 in Pleasure Ridge Park, while an unnamed 17-year-old was shot May 14 in Wilder Park. Both later died in the hospital.
“That affects their families. It is something that forever alters the officers involved, and it has a ripple effect in our community as a whole,” LMPD Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said in a press conference Friday.
The first incident took place in the 4700 block of Crawford Avenue around 11 p.m. May 10 after LMPD officers were dispatched to the area in Pleasure Ridge Park to follow up on a report of an armed individual, identified as Pierce.
On Friday, LMPD Deputy Chief Steve Healey said police and emergency services had been dispatched to a residence earlier that day when Pierce called for medical assistance.
The first incident took place in the 4700 block of Crawford Avenue around 11 p.m. May 10 after LMPD officers were dispatched to the area in Pleasure Ridge Park to follow up on a report of an armed individual, identified as Pierce.
On Friday, LMPD Deputy Chief Steve Healey said police and emergency services had been dispatched to a residence earlier that day when Pierce called for medical assistance.
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