David Walker, 51, shot his wife, Barbara Walker, 51, and Steve L. Bottoms, 55 then fatally shot himself

An Elizabethtown husband killed his wife and a Radcliff man on a rural road in LaRue County Tuesday, then fatally shot himself, Kentucky State Police said Friday.

David Walker, 51, shot his wife, Barbara Walker, 51, and Steve L. Bottoms, 55, on Heying Lane in LaRue County, about three miles east of Sonora and Interstate 65, police said.

Barbara Walker died from a gunshot wound to the chest and torso, police said. Bottoms, of Radcliff, died from a gunshot wound to the head.

The Walkers’ daughter, April M. Roberts, 32, of Elizabethtown, was shot in both her legs, police said. She was transported to University Hospital Tuesday after driving herself to an Emergency Medical Services office in Elizabethtown and was listed in fair condition Friday, hospital spokesman David McArthur said.

David Walker died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said.

The shootings stemmed from a “domestic violence incident,” and police had responded to calls involving the Walkers in recent weeks, police have said.

Police are still investigating the exact cause and series of events that led the Hardin County quartet to being shot on a rural road surrounded by farms and small houses, said Master Trooper Norman Chaffins, a spokesman for state police in Elizabethtown, which is investigating the shootings.

State police detectives have not determined who shot Roberts, Chaffins said. Police said Tuesday that multiple guns were found at the scene. Continue Article>>>

Runaway Bedford deputy caught with 16-year-old Audrey in Kentucky

Ernest Grubbs, the fired Bedford County sheriff's deputy who jumped bail on morals charges, was caught today in Kentucky with 16-year-old Audrey McCombs, state police said. Audrey was found safe and likely will be reunited with her family in Bedford today.

Ernest Grubbs was having trouble with both his car and his debit card before he was arrested early Wednesday on Interstate 64 in Kentucky, according to a store owner.

Dwight Collins, owner of the Exit 181 Trav Mart in Carter County, said the former Bedford County sheriff's deputy was buying gas at his store and had to come in to pay because of an issue with his debit card.

Collins said Grubbs bought $40 worth of gas and nothing else. He said the transaction was time-stamped at 8:57 a.m.

"To be honest, he seemed like a nice guy," Collins said. "He went out and pumped his fuel, then his Jeep wouldn't start."

As other customers were helping Grubbs start his vehicle, Collins got a phone call from Virginia State Police investigators. He said they wanted more information about which direction Grubbs was traveling.

Kentucky state police said investigators had become aware that Grubbs used his debit card at the gas station and wanted more information.

Collins said he told them Grubbs got on the westbound I-64 exit.

"I saw somebody else in the Jeep. You could see it looked like a young boy or young girl. Somebody with short hair," Collins recalled.

"We could've stopped him. We've got some healthy truck drivers in here," he added.

According to Kentucky State Police Trooper Elliott Gollihue, Grubbs was pulled over about 9:40 a.m. near mile marker 169 in Carter County.

Grubbs is now being held at the Carter County Detention Center, Gollihue said. He believed the former deputy would go before a judge sometime Thursday. Read Full Article>