A Knox County man with an extensive criminal record is now facing his most serious charges yet.

Lexington Police arrested Henry Stacy Thursday night charging him with last Friday’s murder of a navy veteran.

“The victim had been stabbed multiple times and we knew there was a suspect out there,” said Sharelle Roberts with Lexington Police.

Using witnesses in the neighborhood who reported seeing a suspicious man, police released a composite sketch of the suspect. Thursday night, they arrested 40-year-old Henry Stacy.

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Authorities say Tom Rogers knew Stacy, though, they wouldn’t be more specific. LEX 18 also learned law enforcement across the Commonwealth knew the accused. He’s what they call a career criminal.

Before his arrest Thursday night, a warrant says Stacy took his truck and had it crushed at a salvage yard. He also allegedly sold some of the jewelry and a gun he’d stolen from Tom Rogers and bought drugs.

Though Henry denied any involvement in Roger’s murder to police, he allegedly told a friend he went in to rob the place, but ended up killing a man.

One of Roger’s daughters wrote this on her Facebook page, not long after word of an arrest: “The police in Lexington made an arrest last evening. While it does nothing to ease the pain, it will hopefully ease Susanne’s fears while in their home. Thank you again to everyone for all of your love, prayers and support in this unbearably difficult time.”

Tom Rogers was buried Wednesday.

Three people are dead in Meade County, including the son of a Sheriff’s Deputy, after a double murder-suicide.

13-year-old Tucker Wimpee, his mother Ellen Cain, and her boyfriend Earle Trippe, were found dead inside Trippe’s home on Otter View Court Friday morning.

State Police say Trippe killed Tucker, and then Ellen when she tried to intervene. And finally, himself.

A former neighbor, Stacy Pike, says she knew little about Earle or Ellen. But Tucker, she says, was a regular at her home. She calls him an honor student who idolized his father, Meade County deputy and high school resource officer, Phillip Wimpee.

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“He wanted to be like his dad, running and chasing the kids. They had a jail out back and everything,” she said. “[This is] selfish… to take someone’s life because of your own mess?”

Court records show a 7-year-standing order for Tripp to keep away when his girlfriend and her ex were exchanging custody of their children.

Lexington Police are asking for help finding a 16-year-old who went missing from his home Friday night.

Police say 16-year-old Brayden Clay Murphy hasn’t been seen since around 6 p.m. He lives on Wyndham Hills Drive, off Boston Road.

Police say they’re concerned for Murphy’s well-being.

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Murphy is described as white, 5’11′”, 162 pounds, with braces and pierced ears. He was last seen wearing a black coat, jeans, and white tennis shoes with green laces.

Anyone with information on Murphy’s whereabouts is asked to call Lexington Police.

Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a senior citizen who went missing about two weeks ago.

According to reports Sheldon Leider, 75, was last seen in late October. A resident of the Highland Towers complex in Southfield, he spent one night at a friend’s house in the city and then drove off the next morning.

His vehicle was found in a parking lot in Sterling Heights unlocked and with the keys still in it.

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“He was entered into the Law Enforcement Information Network on Oct. 31 as a missing/endangered person,” said Lt. Nick Loussia of the Southfield Police Department.

“We ask that anyone who locates him give us a call at (248) 796-5500.”

Leider is described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, 150 pounds with hazel eyes. Leider, who is on medication, may seem disoriented if he has stopped taking it.

Seven people were hurt, and two of them had life threatening injuries, after a crash in Powell County on Thursday.

The four vehicle wreck happened on Hardwicks Creek Road about a mile South of Clay City. Sadly, LEX 18 News found out this isn’t the first tragedy on this stretch of road.

There was mangled metal, wrecked cars, and more than half a dozen people hurt. However, it’s a sight people on Hardwicks Creek road are used to seeing.

“This is a dangerous stretch of road,” said Stanton Fire Chief Eddie Barnes. “There’s been probably four or five people killed up through here in the last two years,” added David Patrick, who lives next to where Thursday’s crash happened.

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Investigators said it all started around 4:30 p.m. when three teens in a white mustang went too fast around a curve. “My grandson, he just got in from school and he said that he heard loud cars squealing and a loud racket,” said Patrick. The noise was the mustang hitting a van that was towing a truck in the other lane.

“Kind of side swiped them, and according to witnesses it was about like a sling shot affect and pushed him over into the red car head on,” said Barnes. The crash was so bad emergency officials had to call in back up ambulances.

Firefighters said the man and the woman in the red car suffered life threatening head injuries and had to be air lifted to UK Hospital. One of the teens also had serious injuries and was taken by ambulance to Lexington. The other four people involved in the wreck went to Clark Regional Hospital in Winchester, but should be okay.

“It could have been worse, of course worse being death, but let’s hope everybody makes it,” said Barnes. “I hope all of them are okay and they survive. And maybe they will get a second chance and be a little bit more careful next time,” added Patrick.

Emergency officials said one person in the white mustang was not wearing a seat-belt. As of Thursday night it was not clear if there were contributing factors other than speed.

Police in Madison County are investigating after an armed robbery at a Shell station Thursday night.

The incident happened at about 10:30 p.m. at the Dishman’s Shell gas station located on Lexington Road in northern Madison County. Initial investigation determined that three males, wearing masks and armed with handguns, entered that store and took an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspects left the area in a dark colored passenger vehicle.

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The case is under investigation by Detective Jeremy Hamm. Anyone with information concerning the robbery is encouraged to contact the Kentucky State Police at (859) 623-2404 or toll free at (800) 222-5555.

A Waco man pleaded guilty to three child sex charges on Thursday and a jury was hearing punishment testimony on Friday morning.

Christopher Shane Davis, 19, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child, court records showed.

Judge Matt Johnson accepted the guilty pleas Thursday in 54th District Court and a jury began hearing punishment testimony immediately afterward.

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A spokesman for the district attorney’s office said punishment testimony was continuing Friday morning.

Documents presented during Davis’ plea hearing showed he was arrested for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old boy he was babysitting.

Davis remains in custody in the McLennan County Jail where he has been held since June 2012 in lieu of a $150,000 bond.

The incident was reported in December 2011.

A Johnson County man accused of killing a woman last month in Knott County entered a not guilty plea in the case Friday.

Gary Ward, 37, is charged with murder, evidence tampering and abuse of a corpse. Police say he killed Christina Barnett then hid her body under a pile of trash. Her family found her in some Knott County woods.

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Barnett’s mother says she believes the two met online.

Ward goes back to court in March.

A man accused in a Knott County murder entered a guilty plea Thursday.

Police say Jerry Combs and Eric Fugate got into a fight in January resulting in Fugate’s death.

His disappearance was first reported as a missing persons case.

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Police later found Fugate’s body after finding his abandoned truck on a road in Triplett Branch.

The judge sentenced Combs to an 18-year prison sentence.