CRIME Allen Active Shooter: Shooting Reports in Floyd County, Kentucky

Seeker22

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This was breaking news yesterday, still felt like it needed to be posted. Prayers up for the family.
Allen Active Shooter: Shooting Reports in Floyd County, Kentucky

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There were reports of an active shooter in Allen, Kentucky. Two officers and a police K9 were killed, according to Lex18.

The suspect is Lance Storz, 49, of Allen. Five other police officers and an Emergency Management Director were wounded, the television station reported.

The deceased law enforcement officers were identified as Captain Ralph Frasure of the Prestonsburg Police Department and Deputy Will Petry of the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office.

Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt told WSAZ-TV that several officers were taken to different hospitals and the shooting “involves multiple victims from different agencies.”

The sheriff told the television station that the shooting occurred as deputies were trying to serve a “court-issued warrant,” and the suspect opened fire and then barricaded himself. The officers’ conditions are not yet clear. WOWKtv reported that Floyd County deputies are among the victims.

“@ATFLouisville’s Ashland and London Offices are responding to a shooting scene and armed barricaded person in Floyd County, Kentucky. @kystatepolice is the point of contact and will release more information as it becomes available,” the ATF’s Louisville office wrote on Twitter.

Here’s what you need to know:

There Are Reports of Multiple Law Enforcement Officers Shot in an ‘Active Scene’
View: https://twitter.com/ATFLouisville/status/1542679967309365248?s=20&t=t8OJ-E8oIceUuOlt2CgHLQ

Hodgenville Police Department wrote on Facebook, “Reports out of Floud County KY say multiple law enforcement officers have been shot and the scene is still active. Please pray for our brothers tonight as they will surely need them.”

The Magoffin County Sheriff’s Department wrote, “Our hearts are heavy tonight. We would like to ask that you please pray for our fellow law enforcement officers and first responders who are dealing with the critical situation in Allen. Each day when an officer goes out, he never knows if he is going to make it back home. These are special people with a desire to put others lives ahead of their own. Please lift them up…they need you right now!”

People who live in the area posted videos to Facebook showing the massive law enforcement response.

Helicopters were flying overhead. The suspect’s name and motive have not yet been released. The shooting broke out in the evening of June 30, 2022.

There were unconfirmed reports of a hostage situation. Fox Lexington reported that witnesses say the suspect started shooting at an ambulance when police surrounded his home around 5 p.m.

WMDJ radio wrote on Facebook, “WMDJ has confirmed that at least one, possibly three different people have been shot. The shooter has barricaded himself inside a home in Old Allen which has resulted in a HOSTAGE SITUATION. The incident began after 4 p.m. as a domestic dispute.”

The post continued,

“Kentucky State Police, the Floyd County Sheriffs Department and emergency personnel are currently on the scene in the city of Allen in response to an active shooting incident. KY Route 1428 between Citizens Bank of KY and Allen curve is currently closed at this time. The incident is reportedly on Main Street at this time.”

The radio’s station manager Dale McKinney told Fox Lexington: “It’s just, it’s really unbelievable. It is something that goes on away from here. This is a quiet little community. Like I said with our radio station we are probably I think just, I think four miles to there.”

He added: “It is very unsettling and we have talked to many people and the fact that it is still unresolved and the thing that comes to your mind about, if and I use the word if, this hostage, these hostages are still in there and it is this man has randomly shot three people already you wonder what the situation is with the hostages inside the house.”

Allen Active Shooter: Shooting Reports in Floyd County, Kentucky
 

Seeker22

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Neighbors give eyewitness accounts of Allen shooting

by: Dustin Massengill, Danielle Miskell
Posted: Jul 1, 2022 / 07:00 PM EDT
Updated: Jul 1, 2022 / 07:49 PM EDT

ALLEN, Ky. (FOX 56) – The community of Allen is shaken after a Thursday night shooting left multiple people injured or dead.


Authorities said five other officers were also injured and a K-9 deputy was also pronounced dead at the scene after a suspect opened fire in what Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt called an “ambush.”
There is no word on the conditions of the five additional officers being treated for injuries at this time.

Two neighbors talked to FOX 56 about what they saw Thursday.
One neighbor who lives in this house you see here behind me says that he heard a loud ‘boom’ and it’s what drew him out here last night on Main Street where he said he witnessed most of the shooting that lasted hours.
“It was like a ‘BOOM!’ It sounded like someone knocked a grill out or something,” said Allen resident Charles Conn.

Man arrested in Floyd Co. shooting, charged with multiple counts of murder

Charles told FOX 56 he was on the corner of Main Street with his son and neighbor when a Kentucky State Police Trooper pulled up to the scene.

“He opened up on him, I mean he was shooting at him, 30 times at that cop,” said Charles.
He said gunfire continued for a while until he noticed the fire truck next to him.
“There’s a bullet hole in the glass,” he said, and then he said it got worse.

“He (a firefighter) got shot right there behind those rose bushes. When he went down, that’s when we all went in the house.”
“I couldn’t believe it,” he said.

Allen resident Tammy said she was on the phone with her niece who lives next to Lance Storz.
“She was speaking to me on her cellphone on the floor”,” she said. “We heard shots, sporadic gunfire all evening from 6:30 to around 8 or 8:30.”

Prestonsburg Mayor Les Stapleton has been spending the entire day setting up grief counseling in Prestonsburg at the Mountain Arts Center.

Neighbors give eyewitness accounts of Allen shooting
 

Nowski

Let's Go Brandon!
The POS should have become deaded. Why is he still alive?

LEO spend so much resources, trying to take a POS such as this alive,
when they should simply have blown his head off.

Also, why would a wyming be with such a POS?

Please be safe everyone.

Regards to all.

Nowski
 

Gingergirl

Veteran Member
I wrote here about my father working in the mines one summer as a teenager.

It was in Floyd Co. My great-grand father built the first Post Office there (so they wouldn't have to go all the way into Prestonburg to get their mail.) Soon after, he added the first General Store. A few years later he built a hotel for the mining engineers working up the creek at the same mine my Dad later worked at that one summer. The Town took the Post Master's name of Allen. A great-grandfather on my grandmothers side was county Sheriff in the 1920's.

I was there to visit relatives in the late 1960's. I overheard my Dad talking to a cousin about which sections of that part of the county were still "closed." The scars from the Civil War were still deep. There were hollows where only one "family" went unless invited. County officials, Federal agents, Sheriff stayed out. Free passage was given to the Preacher and most school teachers.

When the mines flourished, so did the area. As early as the 1930's, many of my relatives, men and a few women were college educated. But, hard times came and the people became hard too.

I pray that this is not our fate too.
 

KittyKatChic

Senior Member
Three dead officers and 1 dead canine officer.

Third officer confirmed dead from Ky. mass shooting

By Emily Bennett and Andrew Colegrove
Published: Jul. 1, 2022 at 9:33 PM EDT
FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- Friday night, WSAZ was getting a first look at a home where a deadly mass shooting happened less than 24 hours ago -- killing three officers and injuring four others in Allen.

We found out late Friday night that Prestonsburg Police Officer Jacob R. Chaffins has died from his injuries. He was a K-9 handler with the department. The city of Prestonsburg released that information on its Facebook page.
The deadly incident happened Thursday along Main Street near the intersection of Railroad Street, also killing a K-9 unit.
Capt. Ralph Frasure with the Prestonsburg Police Department and Deputy William Petry with the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department also died in the gunfire. The incident was reported around 6 p.m. Thursday and lasted hours until the suspect was taken into custody around 10 p.m. near the home.

According to Kentucky State Police, Frasure had 39 years of service with the Prestonsburg Police Department. Petry, another law enforcement veteran, had 31 years of total service. He started in 1991 with the Prestonsburg Police Department where he remained until 2005. From 2005 to 2020, he served with KSP and then transferred to the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department.
Lance Storz, 49, of Allen, faces several charges, including two counts of murder of a police officer. He also faces charges in connection with the death of K-9 Drago who served with the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department. A not guilty plea was entered on Storz’s behalf during a virtual court hearing.

During an emotional interview at the courthouse Friday, Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt referred to the mass shooting as “planned.” In the barrage of gunfire, some officers were forced to retreat under their cruisers, with at least one suffering carbon monoxide poisoning.

Investigators say officers were attempting to serve an emergency protective order prior to shots being fired. WSAZ also found out more details about that order.

Details about why protective order filed against mass shooting suspect
Storz is being held in the Pike County Detention Center on a $10 million cash bond.

Gov. Andy Beshear tweeted the following statement earlier Friday before news of Officer Chaffins’ death:

Today we're facing some tragic news. Last night we lost two brave first responders and a K-9 in Floyd County. Britainy and I are praying for the families of those lost, those injured and the entire Allen community. These heroes sacrificed everything to protect our people. ^AB
— Governor Andy Beshear (@GovAndyBeshear) July 1, 2022

Investigators cleared the scene of the fatal shooting in Allen around 9 p.m. Friday, and for the first time we heard from neighbors who were in the middle of the chaos.

Several neighbors say Lance Storz had moved into his home a little more than a year ago, and they say he seemed like a friendly, helpful neighbor.

The woman who lives across the street said she felt comfortable letting him watch her grandkids.

They say this development of officers being shot and killed came as a complete shock, and the attack on police has left them baffled.

A neighbor says when she first heard the shots, she thought someone was setting off fireworks, and it wasn’t until she started getting messages on her phone that she realized police were being shot at near her house.

Larry Short lives on the street and agrees Storz had been an ideal neighbor prior to this carnage.

Short wasn’t home when the shooting happened but had gotten messages about it. He says before the situation had been resolved, Storz called him from his home.

”I said ‘I hear you’re shooting cops, you’re killing people, why are you doing that?’” Short said. “He wouldn’t tell me why. He did make the comment, ‘Well, you wouldn’t understand.’ Well, no, I don’t understand. That’s for sure. I told him to quit shooting and give yourself up. I don’t want to see you die.”

Another neighbor says she witnessed Storz using the butt of a gun to bust out a window in the front of his house and start firing out the window.

She says she gathered her family, including grandchildren, toward the middle of their house away from windows to try to stay safe.

Keep checking the WSAZ app for the latest.
 

Double_A

TB Fanatic
Somebody "F'd" him over so bad this was the result.
Harm to innocents is always BAD, but it had to be
BAD enough that neighbors are surprised.
 
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