UPDATE: Feb. 6 at 10:35 a.m.
The Fayette County Coroner's Office reports that 40-year-old Brooks Plemmons from Clemmons, North Carolina, died at the University of Kentucky Medical Center on Thursday evening.
According to the coroner's office, the cause of death is "pending autopsy."
UPDATE: Feb. 4 at 12 p.m.
The suspect in the officer-involved shooting on Alumni Drive and Yellowstone Parkway in Lexington Tuesday has been identified by police as 40-year-old Brooks Janzen Plemmons from Clemmons, NC.
KSP added that Plemmons is currently in critical condition at an area hospital.
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Department in North Carolina released information about Plemmons' multiple felony charges.
The department detailed that officers responded to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center on Feb. 2 after receiving a report of a domestic-related aggravated assault that occurred in Clemmons.
Through their investigation, deputies established probable cause and obtained arrest warrants for Plemmons on multiple charges including possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, felony assault by strangulation, first-degree kidnapping, and discharging a weapon into an occupied dwelling, according to the department.
Plemmons also faces charges of habitual misdemeanor assault, interfering with emergency communications, and assault by pointing a gun, officials added.
The Kentucky State Police Department is handling the investigation into the Feb. 3 Lexington shooting.
UPDATE: Feb. 3 at 8 p.m.
A North Carolina man wanted for multiple felony charges is with life-threatening injuries following an afternoon officer-involved shooting at the intersection Alumni Drive and Yellowstone Parkway Tuesday afternoon, officials report.
In a press conference on Tuesday evening, officials with the Lexington Police Department confirmed that around 2:30 p.m., the agency received a FLOCK license plate reader alert for a vehicle associated with an individual with outstanding felony warrants from Forsyth County, North Carolina.
Detectives then contacted the Forsyth County Sheriff's Officer and verified that the warrants for charges of first degree kidnapping, assault by strangulation, and other charges were active.
The vehicle was located using the department's Real-Time Intelligence Center on Leestown Road near Forbes Road, and air support was used to provide updates on its location.
LPD officers attempted to make a traffic stop on the vehicle around 4:24 p.m., during which three officers discharged their agency-issued weapons, striking the 40-year-old male. The victim was then transported to Albert B. Chandler Hospital, where he remains in critical condition.
Officials report that a firearm was located in the suspect's vehicle.
Rachel Rentschler has been living in the neighborhood near that intersection for eight months; when she was coming home from work, the spot she usually parks her car in was blocked off with crime scene tape.
"It's scary...it makes me think about Lexington in a totally different way," Rentschler said.
For her, for a shooting to take place outside her window, in a neighborhood she describes as quiet, is surprising.
"It's really scary to I think that, you know, this is happening right outside, literally right outside my window," she said.
During the presser, an official with Lexington Police acknowledged the impact events like these have on the community, and encouraged those impacted to reach out.
No officers were injured in Tuesday's shooting, and those involved in the shooting will be placed on administrative assignment pending the outcome of the investigation performed by Kentucky State Police.
This is the third officer-involved shooting in past four days, with shootings also taking place in Frankfort and Independence.
Original Story:
The Lexington Police Department confirmed that police are on the scene of an officer-involved shooting on Alumni Drive near Yellowstone Parkway Tuesday.
Police added that as of 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Alumni Drive from New Circle Road to Man o' War Boulevard has been shut down.
Police asked that drivers use an alternative route as officers work the scene.
This is a developing story and LEX 18 will have additional information as it becomes available.
