HERE ARE PHOTOS OF THE SUSPECT WHO REPORTELDY ROBBED THE KANGAROO MART ON LAFAYETTE ROAD AROUND 5:45. ANYONE WHO MAY KNOW WHO THE SUSPECT IS SHOULD CALL CRIME STOPPERS AT 887-TIPS.

            A VICIOUS DOG WHICH TERRORIZED A CROFTON NEIGHBORHOOD HAS BEEN SHOT, BUT HIS FATE IS UNKNOWN.

            TIFFANY POWELL OF 174 KELVIN DRIVE FIRST SAW THE DOG SATURDAY NIGHT NEAR HER HOME AND BELIEVED IT WAS INTERESTED IN HER DOG, WHICH WAS IN A PIN.

            THE DOG REPORTEDLY GROWLED AT HER CHILDREN AND CHASED THEM THEN, BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO ESCAPE ITS WRATH. THE NEXT DAY, MS. POWELL WAS DOWN THE ROAD VISITITING A RELATIVE WHEN SHE HEARD A SCREAM AND SAW THE DOG COVERED IN BLOOD.

            THE DOG RAN OFF AND SHE FOUND HER CHILD WITH PUNCTURE WOUNDS FROM A BITE TO THE FOREHEAD AND LOWER LIP. AFTER STOPPING THE BLEEDING, MS. POWELL TOOK HER CHLD TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER.

            DEPUTY WADE CONNELL WAS ABLE TO FIND THE DOG AND TRACKED IT TO A PRINCETON STREET RESIDENCE, WHERE THE RESIDENTS TOLD HIM THE DOG WASN’T THEIR’S, IT HAD JUST SHOWN UP RECENTLY AND STUCK AROUND.

            THE HOME-OWNER ALSO REPORTEDLY SAID HE HAD KNOWN OF THE DOG BITING OTHER CHILDREN IN THE AREA, BUT HAD MADE NO ATTEMPT TO RUN THE DOG OUT OF HIS GARAGE.

            MS. POWELL ENCOUNTERED THE DOG A THIRD TIME TUESDAY MORNING. THIS TIME, SHE REPORTEDLY FETCHED A GUN AND SHOT THE DOG, THOUGH HE DID NOT DIE.

            THE VICIOUS CANINE FLED THE SCENE AND HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE.

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            MORE DETAILS ARE NOW KNOWN ABOUT THE ROBBERY OF A LOCAL CONVIENENCE STORE FROM THIS MORNING.

            HOPKINSVILLE POLICE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER PAUL RAY SAYS A WHITE MALE WALKED INTO THE KANGAROO MART AT 3249 LAFAYETTE ROAD AROUND 5:45 THIS MORNING AND TOLD THE CLERK IT WAS A ROBBERY AND DEMANDED CASH.

            THE SUSPECT REPORTEDLY NEVER SHOWED A GUN OR ANY OTHER WEAPON AND DIDN’T THREATEN THE USE OF A WEAPON. THE CLERK HANDED OVER AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT OF CASH, WITH THE SUSPECT FLEEING THE SCENE IN A WHITE VEHICLE.

            THE SUSPECT IS DESCRIBED AS BEING A HEAVY-SET WHITE MALE IN HIS MID TO LATE 20’S WITH A SHAVED HEAD AND WEARING A DARK T-SHIRT. HE WAS WEARING BAGGY PANTS AND PRESCRIPTION GLASSES AND POSSIBLY HAD TATTOOS ON THE LEFT FOREARM AND NECK.

            ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THE CASE IS ASKED TO CALL THE CRIME STOPPERS TIPS LINE AT 887-TIPS.

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Nikki Radford accepts Thurmond Award/photo by Adam May

            THERE WERE NUMEROUS STANDING OVATIONS AND A SENSE OF FELLOWSHIP FOR MAYOR DAN KEMP’S UNITY BREAKFAST AT THE HOLIDAY INN THIS MORNING.

            THE FEATURED SPEAKER WAS JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER HUMAN RESOURCES EXECUTIVE AUSTIN MOSS, WHO TALKED OF DISCRIMINATION HE FELT AS A CHILD AND IN ADULTHOOD.

            SPECIFICALLY, HE TOLD OF SEEING THE PAIN ON HIS PARENTS’ FACES WHEN HE AND HIS SIBLINGS WERE DENIED THE RIGHT TO SWIM IN A PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN.

            MOSS SAID HIS PARENTS TAUGHT HIM TO NOT HATE ANYONE BECAUSE OF THEIR COLOR AND SAID HIS FAITH HAS HELPED HIM THRIVE EVEN IN ADVERSITY.

            THE WINNER OF THIS YEAR’S UNITY AWARD IS JIM WISBY, WHO HAS BEEN AN IMPORANT PART OF THE CHALLENGE HOUSES, THE WARM COATS FOR KIDS PROJECT WITH KIWANIS AND MANY OTHER CHARITABLE EFFORTS IN CHRISTIAN COUNTY.

            WINNING THIS YEAR’S PRESTIGIOUS HAL AND BETTY THURMOND AWARD WAS CITY OF HOPKINSVILLE ADMINISTRATOVE COORDINATOR NIKKI RADFORD WHO, LIKE WISBY, RECEIVED A PROLONGED STANDING OVATION FROM THE LARGE CROWD.

            THE HOPKINSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR SANG THREE NUMBERS TO CLOSE THE PROGRAM, ALSO GREETED WITH A STANDING OVATION.

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Jim Wisby speaks after receiving Unity Award/photo by Adam May

Mayor Dan Kemp speaks at his Unity Breakfast/photo by Adam May

            A YOUNG CENTRAL CITY MAN WAS KILLED IN AN EARLY MORNING WRECK IN MUHLENBERG COUNTY.

            THE REPORT FROM STATE POLICE SAYS 24-YEAR OLD JOSEPH HARDIN OF CENTRAL CITY WAS NORTHBOUND ON KENTUCKY 181 ABOUT THREE MILES SOUTH OF BREMEN AND ATTEMPTED TO PASS ANOTHER VEHICLE.

            HARDIN TRAVELED OFF THE LEFT SHOULDER OF THE ROAD, WENT INTO A DITCH AND STRUCK A TREE. HARDIN WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE BY MUHLENBERG COUNTY CORONER TONY ARMOUR.

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