When a guy has ten separate mugshots listed in the Fayette County Detention Center, all since July 28, 2015, I think it’s fair to say that he just plain likes jail!
Lexington police find man dead while responding to a shooting call. Suspect later arrested
Sean Smith. Photo by Fayette County Detention Center, and is a public record.
by Christopher Leach | Friday, August 5, 2022 | 6:44 AM EDT | Updated: 11:02 AM EDTLexington police have arrested a suspect in connection to an overnight fatal shooting.
Police said Sean Smith, 53, has been charged with murder and wanton endangerment. Fayette County Detention Center records say Smith was booked in at 8:43 a.m. Friday and is being held without a bond.
The shooting happened around 1:50 a.m. Friday in the 1800 block of Augusta Drive, according to Lt. Joe Anderson with the Lexington Police Department. Officers were responding to a report of a subject down and found a dead male with a gunshot wound on scene, according to Anderson.
Anderson said Friday morning that police were still investigating the shooting and working to determine what led up to the incident.
It’s the city’s 28th homicide of 2022, which is nine short of the annual record set last year.
Read more at: https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article264210241.html#storylink=cpy.
Sadly, this story is mostly unremarkable, except for the very last sentence. The article stated, “It’s the city’s 28th homicide of 2022, which is nine short of the annual record set last year.” What was not mentioned is the fact that the 28th homicide of 2021 occurred on October 5th, two full months later in the year. 28 murders as of 216th day of the year equals one homicide every 7.62 days, putting the city on track for 47 or 48 (47.31 actually) killings for 2022, in a city in which even the Herald-Leader has reported that Commonwealth’s Attorney Lou Anna Red Corn has been “mediating” pleas and sentences in 19 out of 25 murder cases, allowing killers to receive sentences as light as ten years.
KRS §507.020 Murder is a capital offense, which, under KRS §532.030 carries possible sentences of:
- death
- imprisonment for life without benefit of probation or parole
- imprisonment for life without benefit of probation or parole until he has served a minimum of twenty-five (25) years of his sentence
- imprisonment for a term of not less than twenty (20) years nor more than fifty (50) years
KRS §508.060 Wanton endangerment in the first degree is a Class D felony, which, under KRS §532.060 carries a sentence of one (1) to five (5) years in the state penitentiary.
No need for Miss Red Corn to offer Mr Smith a sweetheart plea deal; since he obviously likes jail, might as well keep him in jail for the rest of his miserable life. At least that way he won’t be a menace to the innocent people in the city.