Fleet says anywhere between 1,000 and 1,200 protective orders are filed annually in Fayette County alone. So officers and deputies face these high-risk cases with regularity, but each one is unpredictable.
“They were defending the community and their county. They were performing their job duties. It takes brave, special people to do what they were doing to start with. I look at each one of them as heroes,” said Rowe.
Several mental health and religious organizations set up at the Mountain Arts Center (MAC) in Prestonsburg to offer grief counseling for those impacted by the shooting.
Some U.S. adults may get updated COVID-19 shots this fall, as government advisers voted Tuesday that it’s time to tweak booster doses to better match the most recent virus variants.