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Eastern Kentucky community ‘forever changed’ after 3 officers shot dead in Floyd County

Local officials on Sunday recounted the fatal shooting that left three law enforcement officers dead on Thursday. It was called “the deadliest law enforcement death event in Kentucky” since 1923 by Ross Shurtleff, deputy chief of Prestonsburg police.

Tribune News Service · Jul 4, 2022

‘They encountered pure hell.’ Sheriff says man who killed Kentucky cops opened fire without warning

PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — Police who went to a home in a small eastern Kentucky town to investigate an alleged rape ran into a storm of bullets in which three officers died and several others were injured, according to local officials.

Tribune News Service · Jul 2, 2022

What we know about the Kentucky mass shooting

"[The alleged shooter] was a sheer terrorist ... he was just a terrorist on a mission,” the sheriff said.

Axios · Jul 2, 2022