An argument over food turned fatal Wednesday evening when a 13-year-old boy shot and killed his 6-year-old brother before turning the handgun on himself, according to preliminary information from Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco.

Before killing himself, the 13-year-old also shot and wounded his 16-year-old brother, Nocco said. The 16-year-old called authorities at 6:19 p.m. and was transported from his Hudson home to a hospital with a gunshot wound that is not considered life-threatening.

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“This is a horrific scene,” Nocco said. “This is a nightmare when you hear about the ages of these boys, a 6-year-old that was probably playing in his room, an argument over food and he lost his life.”

The mother of the three boys was at work when the shooting occurred. A fourth son, who is 18, was not at the home.

Details were scant Wednesday night as the Sheriff’s Office pieced together the shooting and its aftermath at the Sugar Lane Mobile Home Park on Bachmann Avenue. Nocco did not identify the victims.

Nocco said his deputies are still investigating who owned the gun and whether the Sheriff’s Office had previously responded to the address.

“We’re devastated that this would happen to such young children, and we are prepared to provide whatever services are needed at their schools,” said Linda Cobbe, spokeswoman for the Pasco County School District. “I can’t even imagine.”

She said the district’s crisis team is standing by.

The sound of a gunshot Wednesday evening shocked Josh Hicks, 13, and his family, who live in a home behind the victims’ property.

Hicks said he has shared bus rides to Hudson Middle School with the dead 13-year-old and characterized him as quiet. Hicks said the teenager liked to listen to music and didn’t often play outside with neighborhood children. Though he didn’t know the boy well, he said, “I didn’t think he would ever do something like this.”

Senior U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II of the Western District of Kentucky sentenced Cincinnati resident, Christopher Hisle, 45, to serve 180 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release, the Justice Department announced today. Restitution will be determined at a future date. Hisle pleaded guilty on Nov. 14, 2014, to sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, and to enticing individuals to travel in interstate commerce for prostitution and transporting individuals in interstate commerce for prostitution.

Police arrested Hisle on April 8, 2014, in Louisville, Kentucky, after he drove a young woman from Cincinnati to Louisville to engage in prostitution at a Louisville motel. Subsequent investigation linked Hisle to the prostitution of multiple additional women in Ohio, Kentucky and elsewhere.

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According to the evidence presented in court proceedings and documents filed in the case, Hisle physically assaulted several of the young women he exploited for prostitution, including striking one of the victims in the face when she threatened to run away. In furtherance of his sex trafficking scheme, Hisle controlled the women he prostituted by various means, including boards and locks which restricted the women’s ability to exit the dwelling where Hisle housed them when he was not transporting them for prostitution.

“This defendant preyed on vulnerable young victims and cruelly exploited them for his profit,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This sentence sends a clear message that the United States will not tolerate modern-day slavery and will work tirelessly to restore the rights and dignity of the victims of this crime.”

“The horrors of human trafficking cause unimaginable pain, desperation and despair,” said Acting U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn Jr. of the Western District of Kentucky. “And the fear of violence and other reprisals all too often keep victims from reporting this heinous crime. My office is working hard to train our law enforcement partners so that we can recognize this tragic situation and then bring justice with a solid sentence for the defendants and an order of restitution for victims.”

“Protecting the civil rights of every individual in our community is one the FBI’s top criminal priorities,” said Special Agent in Charge Howard S. Marshall of the FBI’s Louisville Office. “We work closely with community leaders and our law enforcement partners to proactively target predators involved in human trafficking. These women were exploited as a reusable commodity by men that forced them to participate in the sex trafficking industry. Our agents and task force officers work tirelessly to address every civil rights allegation we receive; I am proud of the hard work they do to protect and rescue the victims that are unable to defend themselves.”

This case was investigated by the FBI and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda E. Gregory of the Western District of Kentucky and Trial Attorney William Nolan of the Civil Rights Division’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit.

A jury returned a guilty verdict in a Lexington kidnapping and rape case Wednesday night.

The victim told police she was kidnapped in the parking lot of the Versailles Road Speedway and sexually assaulted back in December 2013. Investigators say surveillance video captured images of Parico Coffey at the Speedway just before the crime. Police say the victim managed to grab Coffey’s gun and escape.

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According to Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Larson, the jury found Coffey guilty on all counts, including kidnapping, rape, sodomy and robbery.

Larson said Coffey will face a 46 year sentence.

A manhunt for a suspect that police say shot at an officer ended Thursday afternoon with the death of the suspect.

The search ended on Indian Springs Drive in Gravel Switch. Police say that Matthew Dale Grider has died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound during the search.

Officials say around 5:30 p.m . Wednesday, an officer with the state police drug enforcement unit attempted to execute a warrant on Matthew Dale Grider at a home on Sand Knob Road. Shots were exchanged and Grider fled the scene. The officer was not injured.

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Boyle County schools were placed on a soft lockdown due to reports that Grider was in the area, sources at the Boyle County Sheriff’s department confirm.

Grider had a long list of charges including domestic violence, terroristic threatening and capital murder in 1998. The capital murder charge was amended to reckless homicide.

He was sentenced to two years for the reckless homicide charge.

Less than a week ago, Amber Dawn Webb, a  Madison County mother was killed in a car crash on I-75 and her family still has a lot of questions. They don’t know how the wreck happened or why she was on the interstate in the first place.

“We just can’t understand why she was on I-75,” Timmy Webb said. “Because she hated the highway.”

Amber Dawn was on her way to get her 11 year old son’s hearing aid repaired in Richmond when somehow, she ended up Southbound on I-75.

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Police say that the mother of two lost control of her car and it wound up on it’s side. That’s when a jeep, pulling a trailer, slammed into her car.

She was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Her family said that she typically avoided I-75 out of fear and guess that she was in the wrong lane and was forced to merge onto the interstate. They are hoping that anyone who saw the crash will contact them.

“If anybody knows anything I wish they would call us,” Mr. Webb pleaded “It would mean so much. It really would.”

He explained that there was confusion from the start.  He wasn’t aware that she’d even been in a wreck.  He said that her wallet was misplaced by emergency crews in all the confusion.

As they deal with the grief, they are comforted by her faith.

“That’s the only peace we find in this knowing where she’s at now,” her sister said. “She gave her life to the Lord January 30th.”

If anyone saw anything and has information, call the station 859-381-1801 and we will make sure the family gets the information.

Police in Casey County have been on a manhunt since about 4:30 p.m. CST on Wednesday for Matthew Dale Grider. Grider is white, 34-years-old, and 6′ 1″with brown hair. He was last seen wearing a gray cap, tan shirt and blue jeans.

Around 4:30, an officer attempted to execute a warrant on Grider at a home on Sand Knob Road. Shots were exchanged and he fled the scene. The officer was not injured but Grider’s condition is unknown.

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He is considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached.

LEX 18 has a crew on the scene and will continue to bring updates as the story develops.

If you have information that could help local law enforcement, call Kentucky State Police at 1-800-222-5555.

Officials at the Blackburn Correctional Complex in Lexington say one of their inmates walked away from the prison Wednesday night.

They say Timothy Day, who was serving a 15 year sentence for burglary convictions in Meade County, left the minimum security prison around 9:30 p.m.

Day would have been eligible for parole in May 2017.

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Day is 36 years old, stands about 5’9″ and 250 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Kentucky State Police at (502) 227-2221 or the Lexington Division of Police at (859) 258-3600.

A Houston man received a 25-year prison term after pleading guilty to indecency with a child by sexual contact in Gregg County, Assistant District Attorney Madison Hood said Tuesday.

Andrew Moses Valero, 44, pleaded guilty to the second-degree felony Monday in District Judge David Brabham’s courtroom while jurors were being selected for his trial.

Hood said Valero has two other charges against him that involve the same child, a 15-year-old girl, who is not related to him.

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Valero’s sentence begins immediately. However, he also faces two pending felony assault charges in Harris County, Hood said.

“They are not sexual (charges),” she added.

Valero will be transferred to Houston to face those charges, Hood said.

He must serve at least half of his 25-year sentence for the Gregg County crime before becoming eligible for parole. Valero also will be required to register as a sexual offender for life after he fulfills his prison term.

Valero was arrested in December 2013.

In the wake of the theft of a dog from the Lexington Humane Society, offered to not pursue criminal charges if the dog was returned by 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Someone took them up on the offer. Authorities at the Humane Society say that a “go-between” called them and said they wanted to return the dog.

Thompson, a Blue Heeler/Australian Cattle Dog mix, was stolen from the Humane Society Tuesday afternoon. A couple was captured on film grabbing Thompson and throwing him over a fence.

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“The puppy had been up for adoption for a few days nothing out of the ordinary,” Lexington Humane Society employee, Ashley Hammond said. “We hadn’t seen anything out of the ordinary people come and go throughout the facility.

Workers at the Humane Society were concerned because Thompson requires medication. Thompson will be treated by a vet, but officials tell LEX 18 that he suffered a mild sprain in one of his feet.