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Authorities have identified the man shot and killed by an LMPD officer over the weekend as 35 year old Deng Manyoun.
Manyoun, who apparently fit the description of a suspect who had just assaulted a woman, is shown on surveillance video walking unsteadily down the sidewalk when the LMPD unit pulls on scene and the officer exits his vehicle. In the video (below), the officer appears to remain calm although Manyoun seems to be aggressively and act agitated before walking out of frame and returning with a metal flag pole, which he begins swinging at the officer. As he was being attacked, the officer fired his service weapon at the pole-wielding suspect, injuring him. Manyoun later died at University Hospital as a result of his wounds.
Despite video evidence to the contrary, several so-called eye witnesses were reported as having claimed that Manyoun was unarmed and did not attack the officer or that the officer behaved aggressively and had his hand on his sidearm as soon as he exited the vehicle.
LMPD Chief Steve Conrad defended the officer’s actions, stating that it was an act of self defense. Conrad also said that he did not believe that Manyoun could not speak or understand English. Continue reading
The number of 2015 homicides in Louisville grew again this week, bringing the number to 15 for the year. Police say that the shooting happened around 5:00 AM Wednesday on North 26th Street near St. Xavier Street.
The victim, a male in his late teens or early twenties, was pronounced dead at the scene. There are no suspects at this time.
If you have any information on this shooting, please call LMPD at (502) 574 – LMPD
LMPD announced today that there will be no charges filed in shooting of three teens that resulted in the death of 18 year-old Anthony Smith, Jr. The case is being called justifiable homicide.
While detectives cannot reveal some information about the on-going investigation, they did say that there was a three-against-two fight in a vehicle leading up to the shooting. Police say that the person who fired the fatal shot was “in fear of imminent danger, or in fear of their own life, or another person’s life”, which allows for the use of deadly force in self-defense under KRS 503.
The Smith family wants justice for their son, and they are concerned that there will not be any charges at this time.
Credit: Louisville Metro Police
Within 24 hours, four people were murdered this past weekend in Louisville.
Near the intersection of Dixie Highway and Hill Street, Aaron Combs and Julie Clemons were found dead at 4:30 AM Saturday morning with gun shot wounds. There is still no suspect in this case. Police say that is difficult to find witnesses because of the time at which the murder occurred.
Approximately twelve hours later, three teenagers were shot on Adrienne Way in Shively. Witnesses believed that they had heard fireworks coming from an abandoned house, but the sounds were actually gun shots. The victims were 15-19 years old. The shooting left one dead and the other two in critical condition at University Hospital. There have been no arrests in this case.
Again, about twelve hours later, police found Martel Hall dead from a gunshot wound in his front yard on Powell Avenue. No arrests have been made in this case either.
This weekend added four more to the already high number of murders in Louisville for the year. leaving the total now at 14.
On Friday, Louisville Metro Police responded to a 911 call from a woman that claimed her there was a strong odor coming from her neighbor’s apartment and she believed that they were cooking methamphetamine. When police arrived, the tenant of the apartment, 45 year old Jimmy Ashford, gave permission for his home to be searched.
Once inside the apartment, police confirmed that there was a strong odor in the apartment. They then found a bottle in the bathroom that was smoking. Police immediately evacuated the apartment. The Louisville Metro Police Clandestine Lab Team was then brought in to dismantle the lab. The team found paraphernalia and a vessel containing chemicals commonly used to produce crystal meth.
LMPD arrested Ashford, as well as 41 year old Lena Brock and 39 year old Dana Potts. Both women were at the apartment with Ashford. All three are being charged with the manufacture of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.
LMPD is asking for helping in identifying a bank robber. Yesterday, around 2:00 pm, a man robbed the Stock Yards Bank on Poplar Level Road.
Police say that the man entered the bank, handed a note to the teller demanding cash, received the cash and left. No one was injured.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call 574-LMPD.
The 1033 Program was created by the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 1997 as part of the US Government’s Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services (DLA) to transfer excess military equipment to law enforcement agencies. To date, the program has put $5.1 billion worth of military hardware into the lockers, offices, motor-pools, and equipment rooms of law enforcement agencies around the US.
For years the program has been widely criticized, including in audits by the DOD Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office, which noted in one report that “DOD does not have management controls in place to assure that excess
inventory is reutilized to the maximum extent possible.” The GAO report found that much of the property disposed of by the DOD was in new, unused or excellent condition and that the remainder of the program was rife with inefficiencies, waste, fraud and abuse.
Following police response to widespread protests, some of which turned violent – resulting in the destruction of buildings and vehicles and looting of stores, over the recent Michael Brown grand jury decision, there were many complaints about the growing “militarization of police” in the United States. These complaints turned to calls for increased transparency in the program by the public as well as politicians, including Kentucky’s own Rand Paul, who said “Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies—where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.”
The Marshall Project has compiled a list of which agencies received which assets as a part of the 1033 Program. Kentucky has received at least$46,047,672 though the program since its inception. Locally, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has received $442,883.76 in government assetts, Jeffersontown PD received $494,233.15, LMPD received $384,252.61, Metro Corrections received $19,365.00, and St. Matthew’s PD received $21,495.69. UofL Police Department was near the bottom of the list, receiving only $1,132 in relatively innocuous assets while the University of Kentucky Police Department received $89,612 worth of 5.56mm rifles (10) and trucks (2). Some of the larger equipment received locally include:
- A $200,000 120mm Mortar Carrier for JCSO
- A $177,447 MK3MOD0 bomb robot for LMPD
- 139 5.56mm rifles for JCSO $69,361.00
- Six 5.56mm rifles for LMPD (fewer than UKPD received)$2,994.00
- 15 7.62mm rifles for JCSO
- Ten 7.62mm rifles for LMPD$1,380.00
- Various vehicles, night vision equipment, clothing and other law enforcement gear
View the full list compiled by The Marshall Project below: Continue reading
