On October 10th, we reported on a double shooting on Endon Drive in Lexington, one in which the assailant fled. Now a suspect has been busted: 23-year-old Marlon Griffin was identified by Lexington Police Officers the following day due to witness identification and video surveillance which caught the entire incident on tape. He was arrested […]
As we have previously noted, McClatchy’s mugshot policy is: Publishing mugshots of arrestees has been shown to have lasting effects on both the people photographed and marginalized communities. The permanence of the internet can mean those arrested but not convicted of a crime have the photograph attached to their names forever. Beyond the personal impact, […]
While checking on Lexington Police Department data to update the information in Bullets flying in the Bluegrass State, I found that the police had finally updated the city’s shootings investigations page. In 2020, a year which saw the city set its annual murder record with 34 homicides, there were also 140 non-fatal shootings. As of […]
Adrun Demetrius Bennett, born February 19, 1998, has managed, in his short life, to become rather familiar with the Fayette County Detention Center. The mugshot to the right was taken on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, after he was captured following a standoff with police: After an approximately three-hour standoff Wednesday, Lexington police captured a man […]
When last we reported on it, Lexington had seen 28 homicides in 2021, the last on September 3rd. Lexington’s 29th murder happened early this morning: Update: Man dies after shooting at Lexington apartment complex By Christopher Leach | Updated: October 5, 2021 | 4:37 PM EDT A 23-year-old man died shortly after he was found […]
As we noted previously, the Lexington Herald-Leader does not like publishing mugshots of accused criminals. Nevertheless, they did print the picture of Randolph Morris, a former University of Kentucky basketball player, in the story reporting that he had just been acquitted of three counts of wire fraud and eight counts of making false statements in […]
We have previously reported on the Lexington Herald-Leader and its adherence to the McClatchy Mugshot Policy of not publishing photos of criminals booked, because it might harm them unfairly at some future point if they are acquitted. Thus, there were no mugshots accompanying this article: Officer saw two cars shooting at each other near Versailles […]
We noted on Sunday that the Lexington Herald-Leader declined to post the mugshot of Brent Dyer Kelty, a man previously convicted of “several prior felonies in Fayette County since 2010,” in their story about him being indicted for the murder of an infant. In that, the newspaper followed the McClatchy Mugshot Policy, despite the fact […]
As we have previously noted, the Lexington Herald-Leader adheres to the McClatchy Mugshot Policy. The policy states as one of its reasons is the possibility that a criminal suspect might be acquitted or have the charges dropped, in which case publishing his mugshot would have a detrimental effect on him. But what if the accused […]