{"id":69466,"date":"2026-10-19T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=69466"},"modified":"2026-10-19T08:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:23:17","slug":"p4-10-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p4-10-18-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State Police Investigate Fatal Shooting in Breckinridge County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>HARDINSBURG, Ky. (October 18, 2026)<\/strong> &#8211; On Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 6:30 pm CST, Breckinridge County Dispatch contacted Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 4 regarding a shooting at 2944 KY 79 in the Hardinsburg community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim, Jerry M. McGee, 51, of Hardinsburg, sustained gunshot wounds and was transported to the University of Louisville Hospital with life-threatening injuries. He later died from his injuries and was pronounced deceased by the Jefferson County Coroner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary investigation has indicated a suspect in this shooting, and KSP Post 4 detectives and troopers are actively working on this investigation. Additional information will be released as it becomes available.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARDINSBURG, Ky. (October 18, 2026) &#8211; On Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 6:30 pm CST, Breckinridge County Dispatch contacted Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 4 regarding a shooting at 2944 KY 79 in the Hardinsburg community.&nbsp; The victim, Jerry M. McGee, 51, of Hardinsburg, sustained gunshot wounds and was transported to the University of Louisville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[88,93],"class_list":["post-69466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-post-4","tag-death-investigation","tag-post-4"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024-Article-Graphics-Death-Investigation-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69467,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69466\/revisions\/69467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}