Man armed with gun and hammer disrupts event at Lexington skate park

A man armed with a rifle and a hammer disrupted an event at a Lexington skate park Saturday afternoon, then barricaded himself inside a nearby home, police said.

The Lexington Police Department was called to Berry Hill Park on Buckhorn Drive at about 12:05 p.m., after the man walked up to a speaker being used at the event and smashed it with the hammer, said police Lt. Benjamin Stratton.

“There were many juveniles in the park for a skate event” at the time, Stratton said…

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