AN OHIO MAN WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE WRECK ON I-24 IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAST NIGHT.

            THE REPORT FROM THE TENNESSEE HIGHWAY PATROL SAYS 19-YEAR OLD NATHANIEL CARPENTER OF FLORIDA WAS WESTBOUND NEAR THE 12 MILE-MARKER AROUND 9:14 PM WHEN HE RAN OFF THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD AND INTO THE MEDIAN, STRIKING SEVERAL TREES.

            THE VEHICLE CAME TO REST ON ITS ROOF, WITH CARPENTER TAKEN TO AN AREA HOSPITAL FOR HIS INJURIES. A PASSENGER, 18-YEAR OLD JAMES OLIVER OF SHERWOOD, OHIO, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON THE SCENE.

            ALCOHOL IS NOT SUSPECTED AS A FACTOR, ACCORDING TO THE REPORT, THOUGH SOME SORT OF CRIMINAL CHARGES ARE PENDING.

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Murder suspect FRANSCISCO AGUILAR-VALENCIA/photo provided by Clarksville police.

            CLARKSVILLE POLICE HAVE CHARGED A SUSPECT WITH MURDER IN CONNECTION WITH A STABBING ON MARTIN STREET YESTERDAY MORNING.

            FACING CRIMINAL HOMICIDE CHARGES IS 37-YEAR OLD FRANSCISCO AGUILAR-VALENCIA OF 736 MARTIN STREET. POLICE SAY AGUILAR-VALENCIA GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT WITH 39-YEAR OLD DANIEL DION BRIDGES OF CLARKSVILLE IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND THE TWO BEGAN FIGHTING.

            BRIDGES COLLAPSED AFTER THE FIGHT AND AGUILAR-VALENCIA REPORTEDLY LEFT THE SCENE. A MAN HEADING TO WORK CALLED 911 LATER IN THE MORNING AFTER FINDING BRIDGES’ BODY ON THE STREET AND POLICE BELIEVE SEVERAL STAB WOUNDS WERE THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH.

            DETECTIVE TIM ANDERSON INVESTIGATED AND INTERVIEWED AGUILAR-VALENCIA, WHEN HE REPORTEDLY ADMITTED TO BEING THE ONLY PERSON FIGHTING WITH THE VICTIM AND TO HAVING A KNIFE AT THE TIME.

            THE SUSPECT IS LODGED IN THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY JAIL ON 500 THOUSAND DOLLARS BOND.

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Heide and Bailey Rafferty Photo provided by Clarksville Police

            A 3-YEAR OLD CLARKSVILLE BOY IS BEING LAUDED AS A HERO AFTER CALLING 911 YESTERDAY AFTER HIS MOTHER FELL DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS.

            MONTGOMERY COUNTY DISPATCHER REBECCA BLACKSTOCK RECEIVED A CALL AROUND 2:30 FROM 3-YEAR OLD BAILEY RAFFERTY, WHO SAID HIS MOTHER HAD FALLEN DOWN THE STAIRS. DISPATCHERS DETERMINED HIS ADDRESS AND PARAMEDICS SOON FOUND THE CHILD AND HIS MOTHER WHO HAD, IN FACT, FALLEN DOWN THE STAIRS AND WAS UNCONCIOUS.

            THE MOTHER, HEIDE RAFFERTY, WAS TAKEN TO GATEWAY MEDICAL CENTER WHERE SHE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED.

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            A HOPKINSVILLE WOMAN WAS ARRESTED ON ROBBERY AND SEXUAL ABUSE CHARGES LAST NIGHT.

            THE ARREST WARRANT SAYS 29-YEAR OLD JENNIFER DENISE BURSE OF HOPKINSVILLE APPROACHED A MAN SATURDAY AS HE RETURNED HOME AND ASKED FOR MONEY.

            WHEN HE OPENED HIS DOOR, BURSE ALLEGEDLY SAID SHE’D GET MONEY ANY WAY SHE COULD AND ALLEGEDLY UNZIPPED HIS PANTS AND PUT HER HAND INSIDE.

            THE VICTIM RESISTED AND TRIED TO CALL 911, BUT BURSE ALLEGEDLY TOOK HIS PHONE AWAY AND TOOK A MONEY CLIP IN HIS POCKET. THE VICTIM ULTIMATELY GOT HIS MONEY BACK, BEFORE BURSE FLED THE SCENE THREATENING TO “TAKE CARE OF HIM.”

            BURSE WAS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT AROUND 11 O’CLOCK AT THE INTERSECTION OF EAST 19^TH AND OAK STREETS ON SEXUAL ABUSE, ROBBERY AND UNLAWFUL IMPRISONMENT CHARGES.

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              KENTUCKY STATE POLICE INVESTIGATED A FATAL WRECK IN CALLOWAY COUNTY YESTERDAY.

            THE VICTIM WAS IDENTIFIED AS 69-YEAR OLD WESLEY PARR OF NEW CONCORD, KENTUCKY.

            ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, PARR WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON KENTUCKY 4-44 WHEN HIS VEHICLE DROPPED OFF THE SHOULDER OF THE ROADWAY, OVERCORRECTED AND CROSSED INTO THE NORTHBOUND LANE AND THEN HIT A TREE.

            POLICE SAY PARR WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE BY CALLOWAY CORONER, RICK HARRIS.

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