Lexington had already won the Gold Medal for Homicides in 2022, so anything else is just padding the record, right? Killing number 39 is being investigated as a homicide, but the Lexington Police Department have not stated definitively that it is.
Updated: Woman found dead of gunshot wound at Lexington home has been identified
by Christopher Leach | Tuesday, October 25, 2022 | 7:04 AM EDT | Updated: 7:54 PM EDT
Lexington police are investigating the city’s 39th homicide this year after a woman was found dead inside a home Tuesday morning.
The Fayette County coroner’s office said Nicole Morton, 33, was pronounced dead at 5:05 a.m. on the 700 block of Maple Avenue.
Lt. Joe Anderson with the Lexington Police Department said officers were called out to the 700 block of Maple at roughly 4 a.m. for reports of gunshots. When officers arrived they found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound inside a home. The woman was declared dead on scene by the Lexington Fire Department.
Anderson did not provide any suspect information and said it’s an active investigation.
The 700 block of Maple Avenue runs between East Loudon Avenue and East 7th Street, and is a neighborhood of early 20th century working-class single-family homes. The home directly across the street is shown on zillow.com as being off the market, with a guesstimated sale value of $112,300, and a rental estimate of $816 per month. The inside photos show a home that has been at least partially remodeled. If I have correctly identified the house, it has a #BlackLivesMatter sign in front according to a Google Maps Streetscape photo, but that does not mean that either the victim or her killer are black; the area is racially integrated, and I have seen #BlackLivesMatter signs on homes occupied by white families in that section of town.