CORBIN, Ky. — People in this part of Kentucky remember where they were when shots rang out on Interstate 75 . With the lone suspect still on the loose, it’s hard to forget.
Kristin Smith wasn’t at The Wrigley , a diner in downtown Corbin she’s owned for close to a decade. Instead, she spent that Saturday evening in the crowd in Newport, in far Northern Kentucky, for the release of an anthology on the devastating Eastern Kentucky floods two years ago.
As the attendees reflected on one tragedy, another was taking place near her home.
Silas House, a Corbin-area native and one of the region’s most well-known names, wasn’t in the Bluegrass State but was rattled by the news in New York.
His parents drove under the overpass where the shooting happened about an hour before it took place, Kentucky’s poet laureate said, and the dread churned inside him when they didn’t answer his first call.
And Jamey Mills, who operates Laurel County’s ambulance service, was building a Hot Wheels set with his 2-year-old son when he got the call at about 5:30 p.m. He was on the scene about 20 minutes later as his crew members were loading up the last couple shooting victims.