It was just Thursday that we reported on three absolute super-geniuses, for shooting and wounding a Lexington police detective. Well, now on what the talking heads at the Weather Channel are calling the first day of meteorological spring, we’re learning more, and it isn’t pretty.

Two suspects charged for firing on Lexington police detective linked to other shooting

by Christopher Leach | Friday, March 1, 2024 | 7:39 AM | Updated: 9:45 AM

Two of the three suspects who have been accused of shooting a Lexington police officer earlier this week are facing new charges from a another shooting this past summer, according to the Lexington Police Department.

Daquis Sharp, 27, and Jatiece Parks, 19, have both been charged with two counts of first-degree assault (complicity) and one count of first-degree wanton endangerment (complicity). Police said the charges are connected to a shooting that injured three people, including a juvenile.

Jatiecee Parks, mugshot by Fayette County Detention Center, and is a public record.

The shooting happened on July 4 on the 500 block of Stonehaven Drive. Police said they found shell casings and damaged property on the scene and while investigating, three people showed up at a local hospital with gunshot wounds. Their injuries were described as non-life-threatening.

Parks was one of the three people injured in the shooting, according to court documents. He told investigators he was lighting fireworks at a party when an unknown vehicle drove by and fired shots.

During the investigation, detectives learned Parks was not an attendee at the party and had lied in his initial statement. Court documents say Sharp planned the shooting and was present with Parks when it occurred.

There’s more at the original.

No, of course what my best friend used to call the Lexington Herald-Liberal didn’t publish the (alleged) malefactors’ mugshots; it seems that exceptions taken to the McClatchy Mugshot Policy are only taken when the accused criminals are white.

There’s more below the fold, because I have a video embedded there.

The accused, if they are guilty — and they are presumed to be innocent unless and until they are convicted in a court of law — really aren’t the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree. If they are guilty of the accusations leveled, they’ve had (at least) two shootings in which they were able to shoot four people, none of them terribly seriously — the people injured in the July 4^th shootings just “showed up at a local hospital with gunshot wounds” — and they never succeeded in actually killing anyone. Firing a gun at people is always attempted murder, but these guys couldn’t even get that part right. They’re not just (allegedly) lousy people, they’re pretty lousy criminals as well.