Act Daily News
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A person accused of killing two cops and a deputy in Kentucky final June has died in jail, the Pikeville Police Department stated Wednesday in a news launch.
Lance Storz, 50, was discovered unresponsive shortly after 6:30 a.m. ET Tuesday on the Pike County Detention Center, police stated.
Storz was taken to Pikeville Medical Center the place he was pronounced useless, in response to the discharge. He’s now not listed within the Pike County Detention Center, in response to on-line jail data.
The “initial information that we were given yesterday is that he was found in the bathroom,” Floyd County Commonwealth Attorney Brent Turner informed Act Daily News in a telephone name Tuesday.
While an post-mortem report remains to be within the works, Turner stated, “it appeared” Storz had “harmed himself in some manner and was dead.”
His demise is underneath investigation by state police, Pikeville Police and the coroner’s workplace, the discharge from Pikeville Police stated. Act Daily News has reached out to the Pike County Coroner’s workplace for extra info on Storz’s post-mortem.
Storz had a courtroom look scheduled for March 23 that may have been his first since he was arraigned on his indictment, the prosecutor stated.
After that listening to, Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt informed reporters that deputies on June 30 had been serving a warrant associated to a home violence incident within the city of Allen when Storz opened fireplace with a high-powered rifle.
The Sheriff’s Office recognized the officers killed as Floyd County Deputy William Petry and Prestonsburg Police Capt. Ralph Frasure. Officer and Ok-9 handler Jacob R. Chaffins was additionally killed as was his canine. Several different regulation enforcement officers had been wounded.
“They encountered … pure hell when they arrived. They had no chance,” the sheriff stated, including later the deputies had not even made contact with the suspected shooter when the gunfire started.
The shooter appeared to have had a plan and “pretty much executed that plan almost to precision,” Hunt stated. The sheriff stated it took a number of hours to determine the place the gunman was firing from.
“(The suspect) was a sheer terrorist … he was just a terrorist on a mission,” the sheriff stated.
The gunman additionally had “a lot” of ammunition and a physique armor vest, Floyd County officers stated at a later news convention.
Source: www.cnn.com