Suspect kills 2 women in Kentucky church
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It’s been two days since police say Guy House shot five people, including a state trooper, leaving two women dead.
In the aftermath of Sunday’s tragic shooting, classmates and instructors are honoring the life of 34-year-old Christina Combs, who was set to graduate this December as a nursing student from BCTC.
The idea that you’d be at church on a Sunday and be subjected to violence is antithetical to what our country is," Gov. Andy Beshear said.
Concerns about the security of church services have risen in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Lexington church. One security expert says active shootings in churches have gone up across the nation in the past ten years,
The assailant was fatally shot by police at a Lexington church, but not before shooting five people and killing two.
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Before fleeing to the church, House allegedly shot a Kentucky State Police trooper at about 11.35 a.m. on Sunday after being pulled over near Terminal Drive near Blue Grass Airport. The trooper sustained non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Lexington Police Department.