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One shot dead, four injured at funeral home
By Jason Riley
[email protected]
The Courier-Journal
One person was shot to death and four others injured Sunday evening when two people fired multiple gun shots into a group of people who had gathered for a wake Sunday evening outside of A.D. Porter & Sons Funeral Home at 1300 W. Chestnut St.
Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert White said two unidentified suspects confronted a group gathering for a visitation at about 7:15 p.m., when shots were fired at those outside the funeral home. The two suspects fled on foot.
One person – who has not been identified– lay dead, covered in a white sheet, just outside the door of the funeral home for several hours last night while 40 to 50 people were held inside Porter & Sons until police could question them. White described some of the people inside the funeral home as “hysterical.” The four other people shot last night had non-life threatening injuries and drove themselves to University Hospital, White said.
White, who visited the scene, called the multiple shootings and homicide a “tragedy,” and urged citizens to work with police to find the two suspects.
The killing was Louisville’s 20th homicide of the year, and the fourth in less than a week.
“We have got to get the entire community and police department to work together,” White told reporters. He said the two suspects were seen running from the scene.
Outside the funeral home, some people who had arrived to attend the wake of Frank Sherley Jr., cried or hugged others after learning of the shooting. Some, like Lillian Clayton, tried to contact those inside to find out who had been shot.
“It’s just crazy,” said Clayton, who at one point nearly broke down while being interviewed by television reporters. “This has to stop.”
Shirley, 70, died Wednesday. He was a retired employee at Cohart Refractories. The visitation was from 6-9 p.m.
Police roped off a large area around the funeral home, stopping people from going inside Lily Williams, who lives near the funeral home, said she was with her children and grandchildren at a neighrboring park when she heard several gun shots.
“I told the kids to take off running because it was too close,” she said. “You’re not safe nowhere.”
Ricky Goldsmith of Louisville said his 72-year-old mother, Anna Goldsmith of La Grange, was among the injured.
Goldsmith said his parents and other relatives were going to the visitation for her husband’s cousin when shots rang out, and his mother was shot in the leg. She’d only recently had hip replacement surgery, but Goldsmith said she is a strong woman and he was confident she would be OK. "I know she’s in the best care she can be in," he said. "We’re just praying to God that everything works out." He said later, "She’s the one who taught me to pray."
Waiting to get word in a hallway at University Hospital, he said the shooting was disturbing.
"It’s stupid," he said. "It’s pretty said that you can’t go pay your respects in the city anymore. People want to be able to sit out on their front porch and feel free to raise their children."
Early Saturday, Jesus Daniel Corona-Paredes, 22, was found in the parking lot of the Royal Garden Apartments off Third Street Road. He died of a gunshot wound to the head.
On Thursday, Earon Harper, 42, was found fatally shot in a house at 1784 Wilson Ave. Her 2-year-old daughter, Erica Hughes, also was shot and was critically injured.
And early Tuesday, Richard Lee Washington, 27, was fatally shot in the 4300 block of Tuscarora Way, in the Iroquois Homes housing complex. An arrest has been made in that case.
The shooting was not the first in Louisville near a funeral home. In June 2004, Wayne Lee Hurt, 23, was killed when shooting broke out near G.C. Williams Funeral Home, at 1935 W. Broadway, as people gathered for a wake for another shooting victim.
Anyone with any information can call 574-LMPD.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060521/NEWS01/60521009
By Jason Riley
[email protected]
The Courier-Journal
One person was shot to death and four others injured Sunday evening when two people fired multiple gun shots into a group of people who had gathered for a wake Sunday evening outside of A.D. Porter & Sons Funeral Home at 1300 W. Chestnut St.
Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert White said two unidentified suspects confronted a group gathering for a visitation at about 7:15 p.m., when shots were fired at those outside the funeral home. The two suspects fled on foot.
One person – who has not been identified– lay dead, covered in a white sheet, just outside the door of the funeral home for several hours last night while 40 to 50 people were held inside Porter & Sons until police could question them. White described some of the people inside the funeral home as “hysterical.” The four other people shot last night had non-life threatening injuries and drove themselves to University Hospital, White said.
White, who visited the scene, called the multiple shootings and homicide a “tragedy,” and urged citizens to work with police to find the two suspects.
The killing was Louisville’s 20th homicide of the year, and the fourth in less than a week.
“We have got to get the entire community and police department to work together,” White told reporters. He said the two suspects were seen running from the scene.
Outside the funeral home, some people who had arrived to attend the wake of Frank Sherley Jr., cried or hugged others after learning of the shooting. Some, like Lillian Clayton, tried to contact those inside to find out who had been shot.
“It’s just crazy,” said Clayton, who at one point nearly broke down while being interviewed by television reporters. “This has to stop.”
Shirley, 70, died Wednesday. He was a retired employee at Cohart Refractories. The visitation was from 6-9 p.m.
Police roped off a large area around the funeral home, stopping people from going inside Lily Williams, who lives near the funeral home, said she was with her children and grandchildren at a neighrboring park when she heard several gun shots.
“I told the kids to take off running because it was too close,” she said. “You’re not safe nowhere.”
Ricky Goldsmith of Louisville said his 72-year-old mother, Anna Goldsmith of La Grange, was among the injured.
Goldsmith said his parents and other relatives were going to the visitation for her husband’s cousin when shots rang out, and his mother was shot in the leg. She’d only recently had hip replacement surgery, but Goldsmith said she is a strong woman and he was confident she would be OK. "I know she’s in the best care she can be in," he said. "We’re just praying to God that everything works out." He said later, "She’s the one who taught me to pray."
Waiting to get word in a hallway at University Hospital, he said the shooting was disturbing.
"It’s stupid," he said. "It’s pretty said that you can’t go pay your respects in the city anymore. People want to be able to sit out on their front porch and feel free to raise their children."
Early Saturday, Jesus Daniel Corona-Paredes, 22, was found in the parking lot of the Royal Garden Apartments off Third Street Road. He died of a gunshot wound to the head.
On Thursday, Earon Harper, 42, was found fatally shot in a house at 1784 Wilson Ave. Her 2-year-old daughter, Erica Hughes, also was shot and was critically injured.
And early Tuesday, Richard Lee Washington, 27, was fatally shot in the 4300 block of Tuscarora Way, in the Iroquois Homes housing complex. An arrest has been made in that case.
The shooting was not the first in Louisville near a funeral home. In June 2004, Wayne Lee Hurt, 23, was killed when shooting broke out near G.C. Williams Funeral Home, at 1935 W. Broadway, as people gathered for a wake for another shooting victim.
Anyone with any information can call 574-LMPD.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060521/NEWS01/60521009
