Posted on 07/13/2025 12:08:41 PM PDT by Morgana
A state trooper and several churchgoers have been seriously wounded in two shootouts during a gunman's rampage.
Panicked passengers ran for their lives as shots were fired at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, about 11.40am, wounding the trooper.
The shooter then fled to nearby Richmond Road Baptist Church, where he was cornered by pursuing cops, Kentucky State Police said.
He was shot dead at the church and multiple parishioners were wounded by gunfire as they tried to escape. Whom they were shot by is still unclear.
The wounded deputy was taken to hospital with serious injuries but is in a stable condition, the Lexington Fire Department said.
'We were the first to the scene after the shooting, barely escaping a head-on crash from the shooter while he drove out of the airport the wrong way,' witness Gena Roland said.
'The trooper was thankfully awake and coherent when the ambulance arrived, albeit in a lot of pain.
'It was intense. There were many good samaritans that stopped and ran to the trooper. I think we had five of us down there before the cops and paramedics arrived on scene.'
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There may be a strong possibility this church shooter is antifa, and if so, antifa, or whatever group or identity they associate with should have accountability.
Reference to see what people say.
It is good to have the in depth update on the police officer but it would have been nice to know how the other innocent people that got shot are doing. Not the guy who started the shooting, I don't care about him. But the regular people who were just attending service when the bullets started flying.
They deserve some sort of status besides, "not dead or maybe they are, who cares"
It sounds to me like he was going after the trooper at the airport first, then ended up at the church.
The church might have been a random place to stop and resume his shootout with the police, not a goal in and of itself is how I read it.
Lock the dern doors after the service starts!
“..It’s time to declare antifa and anyone who supports them in any fashion at all a traitor to our republic and treat them as such with extreme prejudice and without mercy....”
Alligator Alcatraz would be filled to the brim with.......demoncrats!!!!
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Cops unloaded on the guy in a crowded church.
That might be an issue worth examining. Maybe put a reporter on that ... if one can be found.
Our church has it’s own security team. They are all armed(concealed) and the group is large enough to allow a rotation so nobody is required to carry every Sunday.
IF a gunman were to get by the men or women at the doors, a number of choir and orchestra members are also armed. And yes, this team includes women.
Insurance and security are two of the big ticket items at our church. And the tension between the child safe folks and the physical security folks. Lots of glass for visibility = minimal physical security in the children’s area. Versus place to hide from a gunman = place where perverts can have privacy.
Please give the fire marshal a call. I think he wants to have a word with you. And, of course, if the shooter gets in before the service starts, good way to trap folks for him to shoot.
There are no easy answers.
Every church should have armed security. That said, doesn’t sound like the gunman was targeting the church.
And remember Five Card Stud, the Western with Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum.
The enigmatic preacher played by Mitchum always carried his Bible. Finally, he opened the hollowed out Bible and took out the hidden loaded pistol.
Some churches (like mine) lock the doors after worship starts, but station security by them to unlock as necessary. You are right, there are no pat answers, just pros and cons.
We also have Muslims.
On my FB feed, there’s been a gun group pushing training specifically for church congregations. I personally carry my .380. Fits right in my pocket. Looking at a .22 for more capacity.
In the 60s or 70s, anyone wanting armed security at church woulda been seen as a nutcase.
Today it really has to be the norm.
Flood a society with dope, RX dope, porn, state atheism, and hate propaganda for everything traditional, and you get churches as targets.
Nothing like having to look around and UNDER your car for bombs or having a friend get part of his leg blown off at Oktoberfest München when a bomb set to go off when some delegation from SHAPE changed plans at the last minute but the explosion wounded/maimed several US troops anyway. Then there was that general’s car that got hit by an RPG in where, Ramstein? Heidelberg? Fun time to be stationed there.
Yeah, I’m expecting all that and MORE from the left sometime real soon. If muslims dont’ get into the act first. More, I mean.
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