Three members of a Kentucky family are dead and another critically injured after multiple shootings across two counties on Friday.
The first victim was located at about 6:30 p.m. in Pulaski County, where deputies found “a male victim lying beside the road approximately 200 feet from his residence deceased from what appeared to be a gunshot wound,” the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office said.
The sheriff’s office has not yet publicly identified the victim but said the shooting was believed connected to “multiple shootings” that took place later Friday night in neighboring Russell County.
About a half an hour after that victim was found, Pulaski County 911 dispatchers contacted Kentucky State Police and asked for help finding a Ford F-150 driven by Angela Gosser, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. At about 7:25 p.m., Russell County dispatchers asked the state police to respond to a shooting in Jamestown at the home of Angela Gosser’s brother.
Troopers arrived to find Gosser dead from a gunshot wound and her brother — 58-year-old Darryl Wilson — critically wounded. He was taken to the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital, according to state police, who said their initial investigation revealed that Gosser forced her way into her brother’s home, and they exchanged gunfire, WLEX reported.
While they were on the scene, troopers were asked to conduct a welfare check on Angela Gosser and Darryl Wilson’s sister, 57-year-old Jennifer Wilson. Family members had been unable to reach her and were concerned. State police and Russell County deputies headed that way and found Jennifer Wilson shot dead in the driver’s seat of a Toyota Camry that was partially off the road.
State police investigators said they believe Angela Gosser fired multiple rounds into the passenger window of the Camry as her sister was driving, striking her in the head, then went to her brother’s house.
Wilson Funeral Home Director Daniel Wilson, not related to the three siblings, told the Herald-Leader that the first victim was Angela Gosser’s 73-year-old husband, Larry Gosser, a retired Kentucky Fish and Wildlife officer. Wilson, a friend of the family, said his funeral home was handling the arrangements for all three victims.
Pulaski County officials would not confirm the victim there was Larry Gosser but said his body had been sent to Frankfurt for an autopsy.
Investigators have not provided any information about a possible motive.
