A Lexington family’s truck was hit by a stray bullet Saturday afternoon. Now, police are looking for the shooter.

“It’s crazy I’ve been living out here for a year and a half and I’ve never experienced nothing like this,” says Tacarra Powell, who owns the SUV. “I’m sitting here thinking I’m lucky my car was here because the angle of the bullet was in my car it would have went in my window. And we were sitting right here in front of the window,” she says.

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Powell didn’t hear any gunshots Saturday afternoon at her home on Roosevelt Boulevard off of Georgetown Street, but her neighbors did. “So I was sitting on the couch with my two little girls and he came and knocked on my door and said, ‘Did you hear the gun shots?’ And I said, ‘No.’ And he was like, ‘Well your car got shot up.’ And at first I was thinking here, ‘What are you talking about?” says Powell.

Soon Lexington Police were called out to investigate. Witnesses tell police they heard as many as two to three gunshots ring out and another neighbor tells police they saw two vehicles, one appeared to be chasing the other. “She says she saw a white Lincoln town car and a black Corvette driving around the circle,” remembers Powell.

Police found bullet shells and say they will continue to investigate.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact police.

She’s earned the nickname “Runnin’ Ruby.” Ruby Richardson is her real name, and she’s been avoiding Powell County deputies for more than a week.

Last week, Richardson was indicted for, among other allegations of abuse, forcing a mentally handicapped woman to eat dog food. Deputies say Richardson is dangerous, and though they’ve gotten dozens of tips about where she could be, they haven’t found her.

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More than 12,000 people live in Powell County. Chief Deputy Robert Mathews has been after one woman: Ruby Richardson.

“Somebody in this town knows where she’s at!” Mathews tells LEX 18. “We really feel like she’s probably close by. We’ve had people tell us that she’s in Montgomery County, we’ve had people say she’s in Clark County, Wolfe County.”

Mathews says people are scared of Ruby, because of what she’s been accused of back in January: forcing a handicapped woman to eat dog food, beating her, stealing her disability checks.

“Somebody contacts me everyday about this case. That’s one reason why this is so frustrating for me. It’s because people thinks she needs to be in jail,” Mathews says.

The chief deputy tried to arrest Ruby Wednesday, February 6, at her home, the day after she was indicted. The house was empty, cleaned out, and Ruby was gone.

The tips continue to come in, though some of them are pretty bizarre.

“She called in and said she thought Ms. Richardson was at her front door dressed like a man,” Mathews says about one of those tips.

Mathews says if Richardson doesn’t turn herself in by next Wednesday, he’ll contact the US Marshal.

Police in Pike County are searching for an inmate who escaped from the Pike County Detention Center on Thursday.

24-year-old Jeremiah Young was on work release and had walked away during his scheduled work release.

Young was last seen wearing green pants with inmate written on them, police said. Young is described as 6′ tall, 160 pounds, brown hair and blue eyes.

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Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Jeremiah Young is asked to contact Kentucky State Police at (606) 433-7711 OR 1-800-222-5555. This incident remains under investigation by KSP.

Laurel County deputies say 48 year-old Jeffery Sasser forced his way into four homes Tuesday morning, threatening the people inside. That afternoon, investigators chased him down, and Sasser is now at the Laurel County Jail.

One of Sasser’s victims was John Duke. was a police officer for ten years in texas.

“I open the door a little bit to talk to him better, I opened it up like this,” he says, opening his door only a couple inches.

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Having been a police officer in Texas for nearly ten years, Duke tells LEX 18 he’s not one to be fooled easily. When Sasser came to his door asking Duke if he’d seen his runaway granddaughter, Duke says wanted to help.

But it was all a set-up. Duke says Sasser then pulled a gun out from behind his back.

“He was pointing it right here at my eyeballs and he says, what do I have to do to get you to open this door and let me in?”

Duke slammed the door, called 911, and grabbed his gun.

“I came out here like this and I looked around looked up and down.”

But Sasser was gone.

Deputies say he tried to break into three other homes in the area. No one was hurt. Deputies arrested Sasser Tuesday afternoon, chasing him through the woods, south of London. On Sasser, they found the gun, three knives, duct tape, and rope.

Duke says after this, he’ll never answer the door without his gun in his holster.

“I let my guard down and this is where I am. It really upset me. I was surprised. I’m 70 years old, and I really got upset. Never been that upset before in my life.”

Detectives say Sasser will likely face charges for a home invasion back in October, when he allegedly beat a 74 year-old man and stole his car.

KSP also interviewed Sasser. We’re told he may be connected to more crimes in the area.