A teenage victim of a September shooting outside a Louisville high school football game died early Tuesday morning.
The boy was in critical condition at the University of Louisville Health Hospital after the double shooting, which happened outside of a Pleasure Ridge Park High School football game on Sept. 29. He was found at the scene and taken to the hospital.
Another teenage victim showed up at Mary and Elizabeth Hospital later that day, with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.
The Louisville Metro Police Department’s Homicide Unit is still investigating. No arrests have been made.
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Kentucky voters’ opinions on the presidential contest of 2024
Which presidential contender, in the opinion of Kentuckians, will benefit Kentucky the most? This is what 41 respondents had to say.
We sent out a survey to Kentuckians in August asking them to consider casting ballots in the upcoming presidential election. Prior to election day, 41 residents of Louisville and surrounding areas of Kentucky responded to the survey and expressed their opinions and worries.
The worries prior to the election
Thirteen of the forty-one respondents expressed concern about reproductive rights, access to abortion, and women’s health care.
Jackson Davis, a resident of Louisville, told LPM News that since Roe v. Wade was overturned, people are concerned about pregnant women who might have difficult deliveries.
“Women are dying while trying to abort their pregnancy or while they are pregnant due to a lack of care and supplies.”and it’s difficult to witness others go through it,” Davis remarked.
Reproductive rights are personal to Davis. They claimed that when Davis was a young toddler, their mother experienced an ectopic pregnancy, which can be fatal.
“She claimed it kind of broke her, but I was too young to understand at the time,” Davis remarked. “I [now] understand that you could have lost your life if you had gone to term, and you’re losing the child you thought you were going to have.”
The attention of other voters is focused on global conflicts. According to the study, Steven Royalty, a resident of Fern Creek, stated that he will abstain from voting in this election if no action is taken to bring about a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Royalty responded to the poll by saying, “I am glad to vote on down-ballot candidates and amendments, but unlikely to support a presidential candidate unless everything changes.”
Not all Kentuckians want to abstain from voting in this year’s presidential election, including the royal family.
During the ceremonial roll call of the Democratic National Convention earlier this year, three delegates from Kentucky voted with no intention of supporting Vice President Kamala Harris unless she supported an arms embargo on Israel and a ceasefire in Gaza.
The “uncommitted” vote occurs in the midst of a national campaign to call for an end to the Gaza War.
Concerns expressed by the respondents included affordable housing, health care expenditures, inflation, and the conflict in Ukraine.
Kamala Harris, vice president
About 90% of those surveyed stated they would vote for Harris on November 5th.
They will vote for the Democratic nominee for a variety of reasons.
To prevent Donald Trump from being elected to a second term in power, a number of other respondents intend to vote for Harris.
According to Whitney King, a resident of Jeffersontown, “I’m concerned that he will either do absolutely nothing or do something horrific,” Whitney told LPM News.
According to Highlands resident Rick Harned, Harris is a better candidate to lead the nation.
“I believe it is obvious that we need a president who respects the law, who can bring people together to comprehend the policies, and who knows the position,” Harned stated.
Jackson Davis, a nonbinary woman, claimed that the LGBTQ+ community has experienced growing hostility and discrimination in the United States.
“I applied to Canada, and I was honestly applying for citizenship [in] other locations,” Davis stated.
They claimed that their rights and identities would be better protected by the Harris-Walz ticket.
They declared, “I cannot undertake another Trump run as a queer woman in Kentucky or even in the United States with another queer woman.”
Thirteen of the respondents who said they would vote for Harris claimed that doing so would uphold, defend, and restore democracy.
These respondents stated that while they hope for a calm transfer of power, they fear the reverse may occur if Trump loses on election night.
According to a Highlands resident named Joanie Prentice, “my main concern is that if Kamala Harris wins the election, Donald Trump and MAGA leaders in various places would try to deny the election results.” “I don’t think he’ll accept the election results and he’ll try to win by any means, which will cause unrest in the country.”
President Joe Biden reiterated the worry about possible violence during a press conference last week that followed the vice presidential debate.
“I’m sure it’ll be impartial and free. It might not be peaceful, in my opinion,” Biden remarked. “What Trump has stated and what he said the last time around, when he wasn’t happy with the election’s result, were quite dangerous.”
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s running mate, was asked if he and Trump would accept the results of the 2024 election if they didn’t win during the vice presidential debate. Vance did not respond to the query directly. He claimed that they were “focused on the future” instead.
Not all of the state shares Louisville’s Democratic Party’s popularity. In 2020, Trump won Kentucky’s eight electoral votes after Biden defeated him in his reelection bid. The Commonwealth last supported a Democrat in 1996.
