The mother of a two-year-old who died in a hot SUV last month is suing the daycare responsible for his death.

A Louisville TV station reports that Lavonte Xavier Swain’s mother is suing the daycare after her son was left in the back of a hot SUV for hours, resulting in his death.

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The child’s aunt and owner of the daycare, 70-year-old Jacquelin Thomas, has been charged in his death, but she is not named in the lawsuit.

Lavonte had been in foster care at the time of his death and was not in his mother’s custody.

An elderly Owsley County couple was shot in their own home and left for dead on Friday. The children of John and Ada McQuinn said their sister, the couple’s mentally ill daughter, is responsible for the murders.

On Friday evening, Kentucky State Police arrested 48-year-old Lynette McQuinn, better known as Renee, for the murders.

“My last words to them out the door, were I love you,” said Cristina McQuinn.

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It’s a moment, that now means so much to Cristina after she found her mother and father, 70-year-old Robert John McQuinn and 66-year-old Ada Pearl McQuinn, dead on Friday morning. The couple had been found in their home on Wilson Lane at around 11:30 a.m.

“I check on them every morning and I came across the street to check on them. And I walked in and seen them, I found them that way,” said Cristina.

Kentucky State Police said they had both been shot.

“At that moment… I said this is not real. I put my hands on my head and I said this is not real,” said Cristina.

She said greatest fear had come true. She said she immediately knew that her sister, Renee, was responsible.

“She’s been mentally ill our whole lives and she has planned this. She planned it, that’s why they made her leave the last time she came here. She told them how she was going to kill them,” said Cristina.

Cristina said her sister, Renee, is a loving person. However, she recently checked out of a mental hospital and was off her medication. On Friday, troopers said Renee was armed and dangerous and by 3 p.m. she had been apprehended.

State Police said Renee was formally arrested on Friday evening, and is charged with tampering with physical evidence and two counts of Murder. She is being held in the Three Forks Regional Jail.

“They didn’t deserve this obviously. Now that the person that did it’s, caught. So, that makes me feel better,” said Cristina.

Kentucky State Police said the double murder is still under investigation. While the home is surrounded by caution tape, the family said it’s not the crime they want to focus on, it’s instead the victims.

“They have touched so many hearts and I just want people to know they are always great people, no matter where they are,” said Cristina.

Cristina said her parents were devoted grandparents, selfless and caring people. They retired in Kentucky and had previously lived in Indiana. Instead of how they died, their children want them remembered for how they lived.

“They have done too much good to not be remembered as wonderful people,” said Cristina.

A Lexington man was in the wrong place at the wrong time overnight when he was robbed.

Police say it happened around 3:30 a.m. on Morgan Avenue. The victim was walking home from work when he was approached by two men and robbed.

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We’re told the suspects took his backpack, phone and jacket.

The suspects left in a dark SUV.

A man was arrested after police say he locked his children in their room.

On Wednesday evening, London Police say they were notified that a parent was locking their child in their bedroom at night.

Officers visited the residence on Bill Mays Road. After getting consent to look inside the residence, they found a dead bolt lock on the children’s bedroom door.

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The officers say they told Kenneth M. Martin to remove the lock.

When officers returned later to check on the children, they discovered the dead bolt had been removed but the door was tied shut and the children were in the room.

Social Services were called and the two children, ages three and eight, were removed from the home.

Martin was arrested and charged with second degree Criminal Abuse of a Child (12 or under).

He was lodged in the Laurel County Detention Center.

A former Franklin County constable accused of running a prostitution ring is expected to face a judge on Friday.

Thomas Banta, 67, was a Franklin County Constable from 2011 to 2014. Earlier this week he was indicted for promoting prostitution, kidnapping a minor and impersonating a peace officer. Hendra Valentine, one of Banta’s former employees, is also charged with kidnapping and impersonating a peace officer.

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“I knew some of the family and I was shocked, really,” said Banta’s neighbor on Devane Lane, Susan Mcnees. “In a little town, like Frankfort, that was highly surprising.”

According to affidavits obtained by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, Kentucky State Police was notified in February of 2015 about a prostitution ring Banta was running out of his business and home.

“Very disturbing. I couldn’t believe it when I was reading the story,” said Mcnees.

The documents obtained by KYCIR said a 38-year old inmate at the Franklin County Jail backed up the story. The affidavits said the woman claimed she had worked as a prostitute for Banta since she was in the eighth grade and would have sex with 15 to 20 men a day. The woman said when she was a teenager, Banta told her to go the Capital Plaza Hotel to have sex with a man and told not to ask any questions. She claims she later recognized the man on TV.

Neighbors on Devane Lane said they never noticed anything strange at Banta’s home. On Thursday LEX18 News stopped by, to see what he had to say. No one answered the door, however, there was a for sale sign out front. No one answered when LEX18 called the listed number.

Banta is out of jail and expected to be in court on Friday. His neighbors just hope the truth prevails.

“Justice for him if he’s not guilty, and justice if he is,” said Mcnees.

A woman called for help after hearing gunshots at her grandson’s Knox County home on Wednesday. However, she said when Kentucky State Police arrived, it was too late.

Shane Mills was shot and killed in Knox County on Wednesday night. Now the search is on for the person or persons responsible. Mills’ family and friends said he was targeted inside his home, on Trace Branch Road in Walker. It’s a murder investigation that unfolded just a few feet away from the victim’s grandmother’s house.

“She said she heard three shots and thought our next door neighbors… she thought somebody was shooting over there because she couldn’t get Shane,” said Shane’s father, Willie Mills.

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Relatives said Shane’s grandmother, who lives next door, called to check on her grandson after hearing the gunshots. However, another man answered the phone. When troopers arrived at Shane’s home, they said they found him dead.

It’s a tragedy his family and friends are still coping with

“It’s been terrible today. I cried all night last night and today,” said Willie.

“He’s a good kid, you know? It’s just a bad tragedy to happen,” added Shane’s friend, Dallas Ray Brown.

Shane also didn’t live far from the family business. In fact, his family and friends said this crime had to be targeted, because when they closed the store on Wednesday night, the gates were locked.

“The boy was at home and the gates was locked. And they come in and killed the guy in his sleep,” said Brown.

Shane has an eight-year-old son. People who knew him, say said Shane had a big heart and loved children.

“He loved kids. If they didn’t have a quarter or something and he had it, he would pull it out and give to them,” said Willie.

“Everybody in the neighborhood knows that he was good to people, you know? Helped people,” said Brown.

As of Thursday evening, no arrests had been made in the case. Troopers have not released details about what led to the shooting but said Kentucky State Police are still investigating the case. Shane’s body has been sent to Frankfort for an autopsy.