SWAT standoff ends with 1 in custody after 70-year-old man shot, killed in Smoketown

A SWAT standoff in Louisville’s Smoketown neighborhood has ended with one person in custody after a man was shot to death late Saturday morning.

John Bradley, a spokesman for the Louisville Metro Police Department, said officers responded on a reported shooting in the 700 block of South Preston Street around 11 a.m.

Police found a man who had been fatally shot. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified that man as Michael Evans, 70, just before 5 p.m. Saturday…

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