HOPKINSVILLE, KY (CHRISTIAN COUNTY NOW) – A man was shot near East Second Street on May 21, and the suspect turned herself in to Hopkinsville Police.
On May 21 just before 10 a.m., officers received a call for shots fired in the area of East Second and Liberty Street. Officers and detectives responded and quickly located the victim, Jaleon Dyess, who suffered a gunshot wound to the neck, according to Hopkinsville Police spokesperson Officer Royale Marfil.
Dyess was flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He was interviewed by detectives and was able to identify the subject that shot him as 21 year-old Shadymon Buckner, whom he had gotten into an argument with prior to the shooting, Marfil said.
As officers and detectives were trying to locate Buckner, she turned herself in to the Police Department. Detectives executed a search warrant in the 1000 block of Howell Street and found the firearm Buckner had discarded after the shooting, Marfil said. Buckner was charged with first-degree assault.
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