Midday Headlines 5/9/11

A HOPKINS COUNTY WOMAN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH THE WEEKEND DEATH OF HER BOYFRIEND'S TWO YEAR OLD SON.  THE MADISONVILLE MESSENGER REPORTS 28-YEAR-OLD ALEXIS MAYES WAS CHARGED SATURDAY WITH THE DEATH OF TWO YEAR OLD KALIEB HIGGINS AT MAYES' HIGHLAND AVENUE RESIDENCE IN EARLINGTON.

AN AUTOPSY REVEALED HIGGINS DIED OF BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA TO THE HEAD AND BODY.  HIGGINS WAS BROUGHT TO THE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER EARLY SATURDAY MORNING WHERE HE DIED A SHORT TIME LATER.  MAYES IS BEING HELD IN THE HOPKINS COUNTY JAIL ON A 500-THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND.  THE HOPKINS COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IS CONTINUING ITS INVESTIGATION.

TWO PEOPLE WHO DIED IN AN ACCIDENTIAL ELECTROCUTION IN MAYFIELD SATURDAY HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED.  W-P-S-D REPORTS ON ITS WEBSITE 60-YEAR-OLD WILLIE J. MARTIN AND 68-YEAR-OLD RAYBURN SANDERSON DIED AT AN EAST COLLEGE STREET RESIDENCE.  TWO OTHER MEN WERE HOSPITALIZED AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, WITH ONE BEING RELEASED SUNDAY.

INVESTIGATORS SAY THE FOUR MEN WERE REMOVING A C-B ANTENNA FROM THE HOME WHEN IT FELL ON SOME POWER LINES.  MAYFIELD POLICE ARE CONTINUING THEIR INVESTIGATION.

CLARKSVILLE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE NAME OF THE VICTIM KILLED IN AN EARLY MORNING SHOOTING SATURDAY.  THE VICTIM IS IDENTIFIED AS 37-YEAR-OLD RAUL ARIAS TRIANA WHO LIVED AT A BUNKER HILL ROAD RESIDENCE WHICH WAS BROKEN INTO BY FOUR PEOPLE JUST BEFORE TWO A-M SATURDAY.  INVESTIGATORS HAVE ALSO CLARIFIED THAT TRIANA WAS NOT KILLED BY GUNFIRE FROM THE HOMEOWNER WHO SHOT AT THE SUSPECTS.  IT'S BELIEVED ONE OR MORE PERSONS WHO LIVE IN THE HOME KNEW ONE OR MORE OF THE SUSPECTS.  THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.