Lexington just suffered it’s sixth homicide of 2022, and the Lexington Police Department arrested Juan Carlos Linares for the murder of the victim. I suppose that we could say that Mr Linares was ‘known to the police,’ to euphemism, in that his record at the Fayette County Detention Center showed seven mugshots of him, from arrests beginning on January 27, 2018 through March 5, 2022.

Three people arrested after shooting in downtown Lexington leaves one dead, one injured

by Karla Ward | Saturday, March 5, 2022 | 2:04 PM EST | Updated: 4:50 PM EST

Lexington police have arrested three people in connection with a shooting in downtown Lexington that left one person dead and another with life-threatening injuries early Saturday.

Police announced the arrests in a news release late Saturday afternoon, saying the three suspects, Juan Linares, 23; Humberto Saucedo-Salgado, 25; and Oziel Saucedo-Salgado, 28, were being held in the Fayette County Detention Center.

The name of the person who died in the shooting has not been released.

There’s more here.

The brothers — or at least I assume they are brothers, from their names — Saucedo-Salgado were booked on First-degree assault charges, and they each had just the current mugshots listed.

Naturally, what my unfortunately late best friend used to call the Lexington Herald-Liberal chose not to publish the mugshots shown in this article, but those mugshots are public records, and I do believe in publishing them.

It would seem that Messrs Saucedo-Salgado chose the wrong guy to hang with. Mr Linares, charged with murder, is looking at spending the rest of his miserable life behind bars, and could even get the death penalty, at least if the Fayette County Commonwealth’s Attorney. Lou Ann Red Corn doesn’t cut him a sweetheart plea bargain deal like she has done so many times recently.

If Mr Linares has been arrested seven times from January 27, 2018 — and we don’t know if he has a prior, sealed juvenile record — it has to be asked: why was he out on Short Street in downtown Lexington on March 5, 2022? The initial charges listed in the Detention Center records do not have the tell-tale charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, so we cannot assume that any of his previous arrests were for felonies, or even that he was ever convicted of anything. However, he was booked on a Saturday, so additional charges might well be filed once the work week begins.

With six homicides thus far in 2022, Lexington is two behind the same date in record setting 2021, when 37 souls were sent untimely to their eternal rewards, though with one shooting victim in the hospital with “life-threatening injuries” the toll could rise to seven.

At least Lexington isn’t Philadelphia, where at least 88 homicides have occurred through the end of Friday, March 4^th, five killings ahead of last year’s pace.