CRIME & SAFETY

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - The Allen County Coroner’s Office has released the identity of the woman that was killed in the I-69 N crash near Union Chapel Road early Wednesday morning. The coroner identified the woman as 24-year-old Megan Hazzard of Louisville, Kentucky. The crash happened around 3:30...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Louisville Metro Police Department has confirmed that a man was killed in a shooting on South 1st Street at East Jacob Street. Officers were called to the shooting on Thursday at about 4:30 a.m. The man was pronounced dead on the scene. LMPD is handling...

One person was shot at Mall St. Matthews in Louisville, Kentucky Wednesday, according to police. The alleged shooter was taken into custody but it was unclear if there were any additional suspects. Officers told The Courier Journal that there was no longer an “active aggressor” at the scene. Police were still advising the public to avoid the area on Wednesday evening. “Currently St. Matthews Police is working an active investigation in the area of Mall St. Matthews. Please stay away from that area at this time,” the Louisville Metro Police Department, which is assisting the St. Matthews Police Department, tweeted at 3:10 p.m. ET. The condition of the victim is unknown, but officials said they were shot in the arm. It’s unclear exactly where the shooting took place in the mall, but WLKY observed caution tape around Dillard’s women’s store.Read it at WLKY

A body of a Louisville attorney was recovered from Harrods Creek near Prospect Tuesday night. The family of civil rights attorney Jim Ballinger confirmed his body was found just before 10 p.m. Tuesday. Louisville Metro Police said a man called 911 to report the body. Louisville Metro Police Department’s River...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville Metro Police Department has arrested a third suspect in connection to a fatal shooting in the St. Denis neighborhood. LMPD arrested JaQuan Duggar Jr. on Thursday. He's being charged with murder, wanton endangerment and receiving stolen property. He was arrested in connection to a...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Police are investigating after a man died from a car accident nearly two weeks ago. Louisville Metro Police responded to a collision on Dixie Highway and West Orell Road on Wednesday, May 17 around 10 p.m. Upon arrival, police said they found a two-vehicle collision at...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A JCPS bus was hit from behind on Wednesday, sending three students to the hospital, according to JCPS Chief of Communications and Community Relations Carolyn Callahan. The bus, which had students from W.E.B. DuBois and Louisville Male onboard, was traveling on Southern Parkway when it was...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One day after Mall St. Matthews became a crime scene with one person shot inside, Louisville's mayor doubled down on his promise to get guns off the streets. "This has to stop," Mayor Craig Greenberg said Thursday morning. "We have far too many guns in the...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A veterinarian working for clients with race horses at Churchill Downs was a victim of a burglary Saturday. However, it didn’t happen at night. A thief took advantage of an open car window in the bright afternoon sun. After noon on Saturday, the vets at...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A man wanted for a shooting on Preston St. that injured a child has been arrested in Madisonville. Louis Odell Coleman, 47, of Louisville, is facing charges of burglary, wanton endangerment, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, and terroristic threatening. According to an arrest...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Video from inside a south Louisville day care shows a 4-year-old's hands being bound together with duct tape. Ramiah Douglas can be seen binding a girl's hands together at Outer Loop Childcare. Douglas was in charge of monitoring children at the center, which has since closed.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – A man severely injured in a traffic crash in mid-May has died from his injuries. The crash happened on the night of May 17 at Dixie Highway and W. Orell Road. According to Louisville Metro police, a car heading north on Dixie Highway was being driven erratically and swerving across lanes before the driver crossed the center line and struck an SUV head on.

PROSPECT, Ky. — A man who drowned after falling into the river near Prospect has been identified. Police said a man fell off a boat early Sunday near the Captain's Quarters restaurant. Police, river and air units, as well as dive teams searched for the body. The body was...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Police have arrested a suspect in a double shooting that left two men injured in Louisville's Taylor Berry neighborhood earlier this month. According to court documents, 18-year-old Frank Henderson Jr. was arrested by officers with the Louisville Metro Police Department Tuesday afternoon. The shooting took place...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A man was shot multiple times early Wednesday morning at a park in the Russell neighborhood. Police said the shooting happened just after 1:30 a.m. at Elliott Park on S 28th Street. According to police, the victim, believed to be in his 20s, was taken to...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (TCD) -- Police arrested a 34-year-old woman last week on suspicion of killing a man during an argument about a roll of wrapping paper. On Thursday, May 25, at approximately 7:30 p.m., the Louisville Police Department responded to a report of a shooting at an apartment on the 9600 block of Arrowridge Drive, where they found a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Jefferson County Coroner's Office has identified the woman shot and killed in the Smoketown neighborhood on Monday. Coroners said that 37-year-old Amanda Miller was the victim. The shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. along Finzer and South Preston streets, according to police. Miller was actually found...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Edited body camera footage released by Kentucky State Police on Tuesday shows a Louisville Metro Police officer shoot a woman wielding a gun in Valley Station. KSP released the footage Tuesday afternoon three months into its investigation into the shooting incident. It happened at 5:30 p.m....

A body was found in the Ohio River near the Captain's Quarters Riverside Grille on Tuesday evening. This follows reports of a man going overboard early Sunday morning. Officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department and other agencies responded to a call from MetroSafe around 9:45 p.m. when a man said he found a body, according to a statement from LMPD media and public relations commander Sgt. Matt Sanders.