Warren County Coroner releases 2025 report
WARREN COUNTY, Ky. – The Warren County Coroner’s report for 2025 was released and shows some trends that are both concerning and reassuring.
In 2025, the report states murders increased from four to eight, while suicides also increased from 22 to 29. However, auto collision deaths were on the decrease from 2024 to 2025, with 11 deaths due to accidents this year.
One reassuring trend that the coroner’s office is noticing though is that accidental deaths due to overdoses have decreased, especially deaths linked to fentanyl.
“We’re glad to see that fentanyl deaths are way down. We’re real pleased about that. Talking with Tommy Loving and the drug task force, they see those cases going down as well. And so we’re very proud of that. I think it has a lot to do with preventing it from getting into our country. And if you can prevent it from getting in, that it can get into the interior portions, even in Bowling Green, Kentucky,” said Warren County coroner Kevin Kirby.
This decrease has also been noticed by the Warren County Drug Task Force and other law enforcement agencies, who work on a daily basis with the coroner’s office to help deliver the best work results and outcomes for families that are usually going through a very difficult time, along with working with the state police, city police, sheriff’s department and Western Kentucky University’s police department.
“We have great working relationships with all of them. The Bowling Green Fire Department, the Warren County Fire Department, they help us tremendously on cases of getting people out and helping us retrieve things. They’ve been very, very helpful, too. So we’re very blessed to have a good community that we live in, and we see improvements each and every year on different ones. And so we’re very happy to see those things. But it’s it again, sad that we see increases in some of them,” Kirby said
2026 is a very important year for the Warren County Coroner’s Office and Warren County coroner Kevin Kirby, as he has big plans for the future of the coroner’s office that he would like to see come to fruition, like the potential for the office to receive its own building.
