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JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW
YORK JAIL.
AN APPARENT ***-
SUICIDE IN TRIMBLE COUNTY.
THAT'S WHAT KENTUCKY
STATE POLICE ARE SAYING.
THEY BELIEVE A MAN SHOT
AND KILLED A TEENAGER,
WOUNDED HIS FORMER
GIRLFRIEND, AND THEN TOOK
HIS OWN LIFE.
WLKY'S ERICA COGHILL
REPORTS.
"For those who live here in the
100 block
of Garriot Ct., they call this
area a
peaceful place, but many woke to
find
crime scene tape surrounding
their
neighbors house. Some tell me
early this
morning, they thought they heard
fireworks going off but now,
they believe
those were the sounds of
gunshots
coming from this house."
"Oh my goodness, at least five,
at least
five."
THAT'S HOW MANY
GUNSHOTS NEIGHBORS
BELIEVE THEY HEARD
COMING FROM THIS HOME
EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.
NOW TWO PEOPLE ARE
DEAD AFTER WHAT
DETECTIVES SAY APPEARS
TO BE A ***-SUICIDE.
POLICE SAY A MAN WAS THE
SHOOTER.
NEIGHBORS SAY THAT MAN
LIVED HERE WITH HIS
GIRLFRIEND... AND THAT HE
AND HER 16-YEAR-OLD
NIECE, WHOM THE
GIRLFRIEND HAD CUSTODY
OF, ARE DEAD... WHILE THE
GIRLFRIEND REMAINS ALIVE
AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL.
"They were a good family, I just
can't
imagine this happening."
"It is total shock, yes, it is
from such a
good upstanding family, it is
total shock."
THIS WOMAN, WHO ASKED
US TO CONCEAL HER
IDENTITY, SAID SHE WENT TO
SCHOOL WITH THE MAN
WHO'D BEEN HER NEIGHBOR
FOR MORE THAN A DECADE.
"Was a really good guy, well
liked in the
area, very quiet, very quiet
guy."
BUT SHE SAYS SHE HEARD
SCEAMING COMING FROM HIS
HOME FRIDAY NIGHT-- AND
THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS
WRONG.
"It was from a lady and the
screams were
fearing for her life, screams,
so to speak."
"I wanted to help if I could,
someone was
in distress, I wanted to help if
I could and
she screamed again, oh my god,
real it
gave me cold chills, but you
never seen
anybody."
MANY IN THIS TIGHT-KNIT
COMMUNITY TELL WLKY THE
COUPLE WAS ON-AND-OFF
AND THAT THE RELATIONSHIP
WAS ONCE AGAIN ON THE
ROCKS.
BUT NO ONE SUSPECTED IT
WOULD LEAD TO THIS... A
HOME, TURNED CRIME
SCENE.
THOSE CLOSE TO THE TEEN
SAY THE TRIMBLE COUNTY
HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENT JUST
CELEBRATED A BIRTHDAY
LAST WEEK AND HAD PLANS
TO GET HER PERMIT
MONDAY.
"It is really sad, I am so
sorry... I am sure
the community will come together
and do
whatever they can for the family
46 that is
just the type of community we
are and
pray for them."
A SHORT TIME AGO, WLKY'S
CORY PIPPIN LEARNED THE
VICTIM'S NAMES.
THE MAN IS IDENTIFIED AS
48-YEAR-OLD ROBERT
HARMON OF MILTON,
KENTUCKY.
HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND,
WHO WAS WOUNDED, IS
IDENTIFIED AS 33-YEAR OLD
NIKI DAVIS, WHO IS ALSO
FROM MILTON.
THE NAME OF THE 16-
YEAR-OLD WHO WAS KILLED,
HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED.
CORY JOINS US LIVE FROM
THE KSP POST IN
CAMPBELLSBURG WITH
MORE DETAILS.
STEVE - STATE POLICE SAY
ROBERT HARMON SHOT
BOTH THE TEENAGER AND
WOMAN BEFORE TURNING
THE GUN ON HIMSELF.
NIKKI DAVIS WAS SHOT
TWICE AND TRANSPORTED
TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL WITH
NON-LIFE THREATENING
INJURIES.
INVESTIGATORS SAY
HARMON AND DAVIS BOTH
LIVED IN THE HOME.
POLICE SAY THE TEENAGED
GIRL, WHO HAS HARMON'S
NIECE HAD RECENTLY
MOVED IN WITH THE COUPLE.
TWO JUVENILES WERE
UPSTAIRS AND UNHURT.
ONE CALLED NINE ONE ONE.
"When a juvenile has to see this
and hear
it happen. Go downstairs and see
the
ramifications and be the one to
call us,
you know it's going to affect
them for the
rest of their lives. So yeah, it
affects all of
us,"
NOW, I'M TOLD POLICE
BELIEVE AN ARGUMENT
BETWEEN HARMON AND
DAVIS YESTERDAY LED TO
THE TRAGEDY.
WE'LL HAVE MORE ON THIS
COMING UP TONIGHT AT 11.
CORY PIPPIN, WLKY NEWS.