CLARKSVILLE POLICE NEED YOUR HELP IN LOCATING THE SUSPECT RESPONSIBLE FOR ROBBING A FORT CAMPBELL BUSINESS ON SATURDAY.
               POLICE SAY A BLACK MALE WEARING A BANDANA OVER HIS FACE ENTERED A BUSINESS LOCATED AT 20-51 FORT CAMPBELL BOULEVARD AND POINTED A SILVER HAND GUN AT THE 61-YEAR OLD STORE OWNER AND DEMANDED MONEY.
               ACCORDING TO POLICE, THE SUSPECT FLED THE SCENE ON FOOT WITH $62 AND THE STORE OWNER WAS NOT HARMED DURING THE INCIDENT.
               POLICE ARE URGING ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ROBBERY TO CONTACT CLARKSVILLE POLICE AT 931-645-7480.
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            IT APPEARS AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER WAS SHOT NEAR AN APARTMENT COMPLEX IN CLARKSVILLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

            CLARKSVILLE POLICE SAY THEY RESPONDED TO SUMMIT HEIGHTS AROUND 4:15PM TO THE REPORT OF A 38-YEAR OLD MAN LYING ON THE GROUND WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND.

            POLICE SAY WITNESSES TOLD OF SEEING A MAN BEHIND THE “3” BUILDING SHOOTING AT A NEARBY VEHICLE DURING THAT TIME PERIOD. OFFICERS BELIEVE THE VICTIM MAY HAVE BEEN HIT WITH ONE OF THOSE ROUNDS—WITH THE MAN TAKEN TO GATEWAY MEDICAL CENTER BEFORE BEING TRANSPORTED TO VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER.

            THE VICTIM IS LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION AT VANDERBILT, WITH ANYONE KNOWING ANY INFORMATION ON THE INCIDENT ASKED TO CALL CLARKSVILLE POLICE.

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MOORE

            MULTIPLE DRUNK DRIVERS GET PULLED OVER AND ARRESTED NEARLY EVERY WEEKEND IN HOPKINSVILLE—BUT IT’S EXTREMELY RARE FOR ONE TO DO WHAT A UNION COUNTY MAN DID FRIDAY.

            HOPKINSVILLE POLICE ATTEMPTED TO PULL OVER 41-YEAR OLD RICHARD LEE MOORE, JR. OF MORGANFIELD AROUND 10 O’CLOCK ON WOODMILL ROAD AFTER HE FAILED TO USE A TURN SIGNAL.

            MOORE CONTINUED TO DRIVE, TURNING ONTO EAST NINTH STREET, BEFORE EVENTUALLY DRIVING TO A LOCAL LIQOUR STORE. WHEN OFFICERS FINALLY MADE CONTACT WITH HIM, THEY COULD SMELL ALCOHOL ON HIS BREATH AND HE REPORTEDLY FAILED FIELD SOBIRIETY TESTS.

            MOORE TOLD POLICE HE HAD ONLY DRANK TWO BEERS—BUT HE BLEW A .250 ON THE BREATH TEST—WHICH IS OVER THREE TIMES THE LEGAL LIMIT.

            MOORE WAS ARRESTED AND LODGED IN THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAIL ON DUI, FAILURE TO USE A TURN SIGNAL AND FAILURE TO MAINTAIN INSURANCE CHARGES.

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            TURNOUT ISN’T EXPECTED TO BE HIGH, BUT THERE ARE 41,653 ELIGIBLE VOTERS WHO COULD GO TO THEIR POLLING PLACE TUESDAY.

            THE MOST UP TO DATE VOTER STATISTICS IN CHRISTIAN COUNTY SHOW 25,410 OF THOSE REGISTERED VOTERS ARE DEMOCRATS, 12,777 ARE REPUBLICAN AND 3,466 ARE REGISTERED AS “OTHER.”

            IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT PARTY YOU ARE REGISTERED AS TOMORROW, AS ALL VOTERS CAN VOTE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION, WHICH IS FOR STATEWIDE CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS—INCLUDING A THREE-WAY RACE FOR GOVERNOR.

            22,987 OF CHRISTIAN COUNTY’S REGISTERED VOTERS ARE FEMALE AND 18,666 ARE MALE. THE COUNTY’S LARGEST PRECINCT POPULATION-WISE IS OAK GROVE WEST AND THE SECOND LARGEST IS OAK GROVE EAST.

            CHRISTIAN COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL IS THE LARGEST PRECINCT IN THE CITY OF HOPKINSVILLE—WITH 1,595 REGISTERED VOTERS. IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE POLLING PLACE TOMORROW, YOU CAN STILL VOTE ABSENTEE BETWEEN 8 AND 4 TODAY AT THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE.

            WE’LL HAVE LIVE ELECTION COVERAGE ON THE WHOP FAMILY OF STATIONS BEGINNING TOMORROW EVENING AT 6 O’CLOCK.

MCKNIGHT

            A HOPKINSVILLE MAN WAS ALREADY ARRESTED FOR DUI SUNDAY MORNING WHEN HIS CIRCUMSTANCES GOT WORSE AT THE JAIL.

            ACCORDING TO THE ARREST CARD, STAFF AT THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAIL SEARCHED 32-YEAR OLD MACKSEY MCKNIGHT OF HOPKINSVILLE AROUND 7:30 YESTERDAY MORNING AS HE WAS BEING BOOKED IN FOR DRIVING IMPAIRED.

            POLICE SAY AN AMOUNT OF COCAINE LARGE ENOUGH TO CHARGE HIM WITH TRAFFICKING WAS FOUND IN MCKNIGHT’S PANTS POCKET IN A PLASTIC BAGGIE.

            MCKNIGHT WAS CHARGED WITH TRAFFICKING IN COCAINE, POSSESSION OF COCAINE AND DUI.

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