Lexington Police continue to search for a man who robbed a gas station early Monday morning wearing a clown mask.

This is the fourth time a suspect wearing a clown mask has robbed a Lexington gas station in less than 24 hours.

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The latest was around 1:30 Monday morning at the shell gas station on Nichols Park Drive near Man O’ War Boulevard.

Lexington Police say a man wearing all black and a clown mask went into the store with a gun and demanded cash before fleeing on foot.

The suspect was last seen running toward Rooster’s restaurant.

According to recent court documents, all three men charged in connection to the death of 15 year old Trinity Gay admitted to firing guns Sunday morning.

Witnesses say Trinity was standing outside Cook Out Restaurant with a crowd of people when someone inside a car in the parking lot began firing.

We’re told people in another gar in the Waffle House parking lot began firing shots toward the crowd.

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Trinity was shot in the neck and later died at UK hospital.

The three men, D’vonta Middlebrooks, 38 year old Chazarea Taylor and 19 year old D’markeo Taylor have all been charged with wanton endangerment in the case.

They will be arraigned at 1:00 this afternoon.

A public school employee has been fired in Magoffin County after being arrested on sex-related charges.

Superintendent Scot Helton told LEX 18 that Dennis Bays was let go after an investigation into allegations that he had inappropriate contact with a student and inappropriate message exchanges with her.

The arrest warrant states that the student told police that Bays had exposed himself to her 3-4 times. The citation also states that he rubbed his hand up and down her thigh and tried to put his hand between her legs.

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Bays was a part-time bus monitor and custodian, according to Helton.

Helton told LEX 18 that 20-year-old Bays worked for the district for two years and that a background check was performed before he was hired.

“He was a good kid in school, I know him,” said Robert Gibson, a high school classmate of Bays. “I played football with him, but I never knew he would do something like this.”

According to the arrest warrant, Bays was charged with distribution of obscene matter to minors, 3rd-degree sexual abuse, and harassing communications.

A forensic scientist with KSP says she lost a piece of evidence in a murder case out of Barren County.

The body of 2-year-old Laynee Wallace was found in a well in May 2015.

Anthony Barbour is charged in the little girl’s murder.

The Bowling Green Daily reports that Marci Atkins testified she put the shirt and other pieces of evidence in a box and left it outside her office in Frankfort.

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A short time later, Atkins noticed the box was gone and thought someone picked it up, but the box has never been found.

The defense says that the shirt is vital to the case because they’re also accusing Wallace’s mother of being involved in the murder.

WBKO reports that Atkins testified that the shirt tested negative for blood, saliva, and semen. 

Barbour’s trial is set for December 6.

A Pendleton County man was arrested Thursday on charges related to possession of matter portraying a sex performance by a minor, according to KSP.

Investigators say that 18-year-old Bryan Ledford, of Demossville, was indicted by the Pendleton County Grand Jury on October 5 as a result of a six-month investigation that resulted in the execution of a search warrant of his home.

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Ledford is currently charged with 18 counts of possession of matter portraying a sex performance by a minor.

The investigation continues.

He was lodged in the Boone County Detention Center.

State Troopers in Burkesville have arrested two people in connection with a murder investigation.

60-year-old Daniel A. Blair, from Burkesville, was arrested overnight Thursday and was charged with murder and tampering with physical evidence.  A second suspect, 61-year-old Pamela M. Blair, was captured in Berkley, New Jersey after 48-hours at large.

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Blair is accused of the death of Michael Taylor, 38. Police say Taylor died of an apparent gunshot wound. The investigation revealed that Blair had been a passenger with Taylor earlier in the evening which later led to his arrest.

An autopsy is scheduled for later today at the state medical examiner’s office.  Blair was lodged in the Adair County jail.

An arrest warrant for Tampering with physical evidence was issued for Pamela Blair in connection to this investigation, according to investigators.

The principal of LaRue County High School  has been arrested on disturbing charges of possession of distribution of child pornography.

According to WAVE 3 News, Stephen Kyle Goodlett was taken into custody Thursday night. He was booked into the Hardin County Detention Center and charged with distribution of matter portraying sexual performance by a minor and possession of matter portraying sexual performance by a minor.

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LaRue County Schools issued a statement on the arrest, “State police were at LaRue County High School on Thursday night. School officials are cooperating fully with law enforcement.”

This follows the resignation of LaRue County’s girls’ basketball coach, Kelton Ford, after he was indicted on a first-degree sexual abuse charge.

A Nicholasville man is being called a good Samaritan after he returned a missing purse with a substantial amount of money inside.

On Wednesday, Nicholasville Police were called out to Ollie’s Bargain Outlet on a report of a stolen purse. When officers arrived, a woman told them that she had accidentally left her purse in the shopping cart as she loaded her bags. When she returned, just a few minutes later, the purse was gone.

The devasted woman told police that she had $8000 in cash in her purse and had been on her way to pay off a loan.

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At that same time across town, at the police department in downtown Nicholasville, a man walked into the lobby of the police department to turn in a purse he had found at Ollie’s.

When the police clerk asked him who it belonged to, he responded, “I don’t know.  I didn’t open it.”

The officer at Ollie’s and the victim then drove to the police department to identify the purse. When the identification inside the purse matched the victim, the purse with ALL the money intact was returned to the victim. She tried to reward the man who found her purse, and he refused saying “I didn’t do this for a reward. Turning it in was the right thing to do.”

The man did not want his identity released.

State Troopers in Burkesville have arrested someone in connection with a murder investigation.

60-year-old Daniel A. Blair, from Burkesville, was arrested overnight Thursday and was charged with murder and tampering with physical evidence.

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Blair is accused of the death of Michael Taylor, 38. Police say Taylor died of an apparent gunshot wound. The investigation revealed that Blair had been a passenger with Taylor earlier in the evening which later led to his arrest.

An autopsy is scheduled for later today at the state medical examiner’s office.  Blair was lodged in the Adair County jail.