- Two others also injured in the battle of the Church.
- The suspect first shot the Kentucky police.
- Police shoot suspect in retaliation fire.
An armed man killed two women in a church in Kentucky and shot and wounded a state soldier outside an airport on Sunday before the police could kill him to death, authorities said.
The women were killed in the Baptist Church of Richmond Road in Lexington. Two men were also injured there, including one that was in critical, said Lexington Police Head Lawrence Weathers at a afternoon press conference.
The authorities did not provide the name or age of the suspect.
“There are days like today that they are extremely difficult,” said Weathers. “Sometimes things happen, you just don’t have a reason why.”
The suspect shot the soldier after being arrested near the blue grass airport around 11:30 am in Fayette County, Weathers said. The shooting occurred on a road that sounds to the airport but was not connected with its operations, police said.
The soldier was being treated in a nearby hospital and was stable.
The suspect then stole a vehicle about 10 miles (16 km) from the airport and fled to the Baptist Church of Richmond Road, where the individual began shooting at people on the land of the church.
The police tracked the location of the church stolen vehicle.
The police chief did not offer any reason for the shootings, but said there were some indications that the suspect could have met some of the people in the church.
Weathers said the Lexington Police would carry out an internal review of the shooting, as required by the department’s policies.
Blue Grass airport published at X at 1pm ET (1700 GMT) that there was an application investigation of the law that affected a part of an airport road, but that all flights and operations now normally continued.
