1 dead, 8 injured in multiple overnight shootings in Louisville

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – One person is dead and eight others are injured in a three-hour shooting spree across Louisville.

The first shooting was reported in the 1000 block of S. 38th Street at 11:28 p.m. Saturday. That’s in Louisville’s Chickasaw neighborhood. Once on scene officers located a male juvenile victim who had sustained both a gunshot and a graze wound. Police said it did not appear the shooting occurred at the location where the victim was found and investigators were attempting to establish a scene. The victim was listed in stable condition.

The second shooting was called in at 1:27 a.m. Sunday from Louisville’s Park Hill neighborhood. According to MetroSafe, seven victims, five men and two women in their 20s and 30s, were shot at near the intersection of Dixie Highway and West Ormsby Avenue, near a liquor store. They were rushed to University of Louisville Hospital where one of them died. The six other victims were in stable condition.

The third shooting came just one minute later, at 1:28 a.m. Sunday. This one happened in the Jacobs neighborhood, near an apartment complex in the 3600 block of Georgetown Place. Police located a man in his 20s who had been shot twice. He was transported to University Hospital where he remains in stable condition.

A fourth shooting came 20 minutes later, in the 1500 block of Bellamy Place, in the Algonquin neighborhood. Police said a man in his late teens showed up at a Audubon Hospital with a gunshot wound and said he was shot at this location. The teen was transferred to University Hospital where he remains in stable condition. According to Google Maps, this is the location of Bellamy Louisville: Louisville Student Housing, a University of Louisville affiliated property.

These four shootings weren’t the only ones LMPD were investigating on Saturday and Sunday. The day of crime started around 6:30 Saturday morning, when police found a man shot to death in the 800 block of Cecil Ave. Police have not made any arrests or released any suspect information in this case.

Then, around 8 p.m. Saturday, police said a man driving down Interstate 264 was shot two times by his passenger. The shooter/passenger then then took off with the victims vehicle. Police said they do have a person of interest and are currently trying to locate that person.

In 24 hours, from 6:30 a.m. Saturday to 6:30 a.m. Sunday, 11 people were shot, two of them fatally. The other nine victims are recovering.

Christopher 2X, a community activist at the Peace Centered Alliance, said even if marginal decreases in violent crime statistics are happening, the problem of violence in Louisville is still a big one.

“It’s not just concentrated in one area anymore,” 2X said. “People are willing to unfortunately use deadly force on others in places that you wouldn’t have imagined five-plus years ago.”

He said over the past five years, there have been 438 similar homicides and in that same timeframe, 1,645 individual people have been shot in Metro Louisville.

Police said they are still investigating and actively working all the shootings and have yet to establish if any of them are connected.

Anyone with information regarding any of the four shootings should contact the Louisville Metro Police Department’s anonymous tip line at (502) 574-LMPD.