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UPDATE: Homicide Investigation Launched After Woman Shot In Scottsville Dies

Posted at 9:22 AM, Mar 18, 2019
and last updated 2019-03-18 09:22:52-04

SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. (WNKY) — Kentucky State Police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman shot in the head Saturday night during a home invasion in Scottsville died of her wounds.

WNKY reports that 21-year-old Alyssia M. Rodriguez died Sunday morning at a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital.

Officials said earlier that two people forced themselves inside a home in the 600 block of North Third Street and shot Rodriguez and Charles A. Hopewell, also 21.

Two other people inside the home, including a child, were not injured.

Hopewell was treated and released from an area hospital for a graze wound.

Kentucky State Police were investigating but did not have a good description of the assailants.

Kentucky State Police ask anyone with any information concerning the shooting call Detective Michael May with KSP Post 3 at 270-782-2010.