LOUISA The Kentucky State Police have arrested and charged a Martin County resident with two counts of murder after a shooting in Lawrence County.

Elden Shannon Muncy, age 21, of 4701 Buffalo Horn in Martin County is lodged in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center, according to police.

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Amanda Hall was a promising high school student in Martin County who found herself addicted to opioids after pain from a car wreck led her to a hydrocodone prescription. By age 18, she was getting arrested for public intoxication. A few years after that, in 2010, Hall graduated to non-violent drug-related felonies and went to prison.

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John Allen, 46, of Martin, Ky., theft by deception, theft by unlawful taking and being a persistent felony offender; Michelle L. Allen, 43, of Martin, Ky., theft by deception, theft by unlawful taking and being a persistent felony offender; Chris Damron, Elkhorn City, Ky., theft by unlawful taking; Gregory Blake Hackney, 50, of Steele, Ky., operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants, wanton endangerment and fourth-degree assault.


Delilah S. Horn, 59, of Inez, Ky., theft by unlawful taking; James D. Lawson, 52, of Varney, Ky., theft by unlawful taking, operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, fleeing or evading police and being a persistent felony offender; Nathaniel Lester, 29, of Steele, Ky., receiving stolen property; Jessica Denise Maynard, 30, of Williamson, theft by unlawful taking.

 

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