JUST IN: Man shot dead in Louisville after police & KY Nat'l Guard “returned fire” while clearing crowd in parking lot early Mon, police chief says; officers & soldiers 'began to clear' lot and 'were shot at,” he says; did not specify who fired fatal shot.
A man was shot dead in the Louisville protests after police officers and the Kentucky National Guard “returned fire” while clearing a large crowd during a protest early Monday.
Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad said in a statement that at around 12:15 a.m. his officers and the national guard were sent to a parking lot to break up a crowd. “Officers and soldiers began to clear the lot and at some point were shot at,” Conrad said in a statement. “Both LMPD and national guard members returned fire, we have one man dead at scene”
Conrad did not specify who fired the fatal shot, and authorities have not released information about the victim. Louisville police say they are interviewing “several persons of interests” and collecting video. The city was under a"dusk to dawn" curfew on Sunday night into Monday, beginning at 9 p.m.
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