Kentucky state police say the have found the man who shot a hunter in Madison County. It happened this afternoon behind a home on Mallory Springs Road, east of Berea. The hunter was rushed to UK Hospital after getting shot in the foot.
Tommy Lemons was in fair condition as of Tuesday night.
Tuesday afternoon, he was checking deer traps with a friend when he was shot in the foot. Mike Gilbert, who lives at the bottom of the hill, heard the gunshot.
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“I started running up the mountain and I heard a four wheeler start up. They went down the other side of the mountain, and when they hit that field, they took off,” Gilbert says.
Police say Lemons and his friend didn’t see the shooter, but they thought he was on that ATV. By the time Gilbert got to his friend, he says Lemons was bleeding pretty bad:
“I took my belt off and wrapped it around his leg and tried to stop the blood flow.”
Gilbert says he carried Lemons down the mountain where an ambulance was waiting. Lemons’ wife, DeDe showed up minutes after paramedics left with her husband.
“My husband called me on the phone, hysterical, telling me he got shot. That’s how I found out,” she told LEX 18.
Police have since found the shooter, the man on the ATV, but he hasn’t been arrested because police say the shooting was an accident. That didn’t sit well with DeDe Lemons.
“if it was an accident, they would have common sense to come back and check, and they didn’t,” she says. “These people know that they shot a human being. And they left him there, to die, and that’s the way I look at it.”
Police tell LEX 18 charges could still be filed against the shooter, but it will be up to the commonwealth’s attorney the county attorney.
