It’s not that he murdered a woman, but he also shot a dog! Life without the possibility of parole!

Man arrested after shooting, killing woman in Iroquois Park; dog also shot

The shooting happened Thursday in the 1400 block of Walter Avenue.

by Gehrig Mickels | Thursday, November 12, 2026 |4:12 PM EST | Updated: 11:22 PM EST

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A man is in custody after shooting and killing a woman Thursday afternoon in the Iroquois neighborhood.

Louisville Metro Police (LMPD) says that 22-year-old Dominic McNeal was arrested for killing a woman and shooting a dog.

LMPD said the shooting happened in the 1400 block of Walter Avenue around 3:30 p.m.

When officers arrived on scene they found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound.

WLKY reported that the victim is the suspect’s aunt.

Despite police rendering first aid until EMS could arrive, she was pronounced dead at the scene.

The woman’s identity has not been released as this time.

According to McNeal’s citation, he admitted to shooting the woman. The moments leading up to the incident was captured on video, where the woman picked a hammer and threw it at his vehicle.

McNeal then pointed a gun and fired multiple shots at the woman as she was retreating according to LMPD. During the shooting, the woman’s family dog was also shot. The dog sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

But, and this is the funniest part of the story, also from WLKY:

McNeal’s attorney said Friday that McNeal’s aunt had previously beaten up his girlfriend, but no further details about that were provided.

Wait, what? This uglo actually had a girlfriend?

But there is a part of this story which is truly sad to me. No, not the murder, though that’s sad enough. As a longtime supporter of newspapers, I checked and the Louisville Courier-Journal, once one of the great newspapers in the country, didn’t have the story at all, save for a bried mention in a blurb concerning the nuber of killings in Louisville. Even the Lexington Herald-Leader,^[1]I actually pay money to subscribe to the Herald-Leader. I used to be a newspaper boy delivering the morning Lexington Herald and afternoon Lexington Leader in Mt Sterling. another newspaper which has gone dramatically downhill, manages to cover murders in Kentucky’s second-largest city, but what I used to call the Curious-Journal, which actually had daily subscribers and home delivery via paperboys as far east as Mt Sterling, nothing.

I had left the Bluegrass State at the end of 1984, seeking better job opportunities. I rarely returned, but in 2014, I made a trip to Louisville, to see my now sadly late best friend, Ken Vermillion. It was then that I saw a fresh copy of the newspaper, and was shocked at how far it had fallen. What used to be a full-sized broadsheet, which was previously printed on higher-quality newsprint, was now a couple of local news sheets wrapping the odious USA Today newspaper, itself a mere shadow of itself. My best friend always subscribed to the local paper, and read it cover-to-cover. If Ken read the newspaper cover to cover, when I was delivering the morning Lexington Herald in Mt Sterling, I used to stop for a few minutes in the old Redmond Building — I had a few customers in the upstairs apartments — and read part of the paper there myself.

If what Mr Vermillion used to call the Herald-Liberal has fallen hard over the years, the Courier-Journal had fallen from a higher place to an even lower status.

Newspapers are dying in this country, and it seems as though nothing can be done about it.

Jeff Bezos saved The Washington Post as the Graham family were running out of money to keep it afloat, but now that he has traded in MacKenzie Scott for a gold-digger, he’s starting to demand that the newspaper at least break even . . . and hasn’t done a very good job of it. The Philadelphia Inquirer survived due to a charitable foundation, and now claims to be making a little bit of money, though not after some serious cost-cutting. The Inky is at least a good newspaper, though I’ve now moved out of the physical delivery area, and can get it only online. Billionaire Patrick Soon-Sheong bought and saved the Los Angeles Times, but he was never a hundred billionaire like Mr Bezos, and has had to cut costs himself.

Newspapers used to be great businesses, and were self-supporting; now they need charity from wealthy patrons.