Hours after police named a suspect in the murder of a well-known Lexington high school football player, that alleged gunman has been arrested and booked into the Fayette County Detention Center.
A warrant was issued Friday afternoon, charging 20-year-old Ernest Wheeler III with the murder of 18-year-old Patrick Puckett, a junior and starting linebacker for Bryan Station High School who had hoped to play next season for his new school, Henry Clay.
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Police have said Wheeler shot and killed Puckett around 8 p.m. Wednesday inside of an apartment on Ryan Circle in Lexington. Investigators have not released a potential motive for the crime.
Puckett’s family told LEX 18 on Friday that Wheeler’s name did not sound familiar.
The family of Patrick Puckett is in need of help to pay for his burial. Donations can be made at any Forcht Bank location to the “Patrick Puckett Memorial Fund.”
