Carol Hasty’s grandchildren are back in school a few days after a gunman opened fire on a nearby highway in Kentucky. She's not happy about it — even with increased police protection. Hasty says schools in Rockcastle County should have stayed closed and shifted to virtual learning until the suspect is caught.
FILE - Trees stand in wooded areas alongside Interstate 75 near Livingston, Ky., Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, as police search for a suspect in a shooting Saturday along the Interstate. Hasty said schools in Rockcastle County should have stayed closed, with students shifting to virtual learning from home, until the assailant who sprayed bullets onto Interstate 75 is caught. Rockcastle County is just north of where 12 vehicles were hit and five people wounded in the Saturday attack.
“If he wanted to shoot a bus, it don’t matter if there are 10 police cars,” Hasty said by phone Thursday.Minnesota man sentenced to 30 years for shooting death of transgender womanSchools remained closed in several other districts in the area, with virtual instruction underway in some, as residents remain on edge as the intense police search continues.
Sherry Barron said school officials had a tough decision to make, but she would have preferred virtual learning at least through this week to give searchers more time to find the suspect. Her seventh-grade son wasn’t worried about going back to school, she said, and she trusts the safety plan.During a Thursday stop in Laurel County to meet with law enforcement officials, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Rockcastle County officials had devised a good safety plan.
The search continues from the ground and air in a coordinated effort among local, state and federal agencies, state police Commissioner Phillip Burnett Jr. said Thursday. “Being somebody that’s had friends in these mass shootings that did not go as well, this is a blessing even in a really terrible situation,” the governor told reporters later at the Kentucky statehouse.
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