Background: The Florence, Ky., neighborhood where Parker Kramer allegedly met with an underage girl (Google Maps). Inset: Parker Kramer (Boone County Sheriff’s Office).
A Kentucky man escaped gunfire after he allegedly met with a 13-year-old girl for sex — but now he’s facing felony rape charges.
Parker Kramer, 20, was apprehended by police after he fled from the Florence home where he allegedly met a 13-year-old girl for sex. In a press release, the Boone County Sheriff’s Office said that after midnight on Monday, police responded to reports of shots fired in the neighborhood. The caller was the man who fired the shots — and the father of the girl.
According to the sheriff’s office, the father — who was not named in the release — told dispatchers that he heard noises coming from his daughter’s room in the middle of the night. When he looked inside the girl’s room, he “found an adult man lying naked on her bedroom floor” who was later identified as Kramer.
The father told Kramer he was calling police and left the room to get his handgun. Kramer then fled the home on foot as the angry father “fired three shots into the ground” by the home’s front porch.
When police arrived, they found Kramer’s unoccupied vehicle and looked up the registration on the scene. Police identified Kramer as the owner of the car, and the father recognized Kramer from his driver’s license photo as the man who was in his daughter’s bedroom.
As more officers arrived to help search for Kramer, including those from the Florence Police Department, an aerial drone was deployed to aid in the search. Kramer was spotted by the drone and taken into custody at 2:34 a.m., according to the sheriff’s office.
During an interview with a detective, Kramer allegedly admitted that he drove from Louisville to Florence to meet with the girl for sex. After initially being charged with burglary, he was eventually charged with two counts of rape and one count of sodomy, Kramer was booked into the Boone County Jail on $250,000 bond. He remains in custody and has a preliminary hearing on May 5.
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