Video:Police; Fire Respond To SceneVideo:Standoff Concludes; Suspect Arrested
Funeral plans are now set for Lieutenant Brenda Cowan, the Lexington firefighter killed Friday night during a standoff in Lexington that left two people dead.
Police Chief Anthany Beatty says the suspect, identified as 45-year-old Pat Hutchinson, surrendered around 10 p.m. Friday night. Saturday, he was charged with two counts of murder.
In addition to Cowan, Hutchinson is accused of killing his wife, Fontaine.
Cowan's visitation will be Tuesday from five to nine, then Wednesday from 10 to noon, before a funeral service at noon at the Consolidated Baptist Church.
Capt. Barry Cecil was in charge of negotiations with Hutchinson. "We negotiate until we can't negotiate any longer. We continued throughout the night. There was a breakdown for about an hour where he wouldn't pick up the phone. We had no contact whatsoever. When we were preparing to take some other measures, Lt. (David) Boggs got him back on the phone."
Police used multiple rounds of chemical agents to get Hutchinson to surrender to police.
The standoff began around 3:45 Friday afternoon as a call on a domestic dispute.
One firefighter who was among the first to respond was shot and killed.
40-year-old Brenda Cowan was the first African American female firefighter to serve the city of Lexington.
Last week, she was promoted to a Lieutenant.
Cowan was not married and did not have any children. She had been with the department for 12 years.
Another firefighter, Jim Sandford, was also shot. He was in stable condition Friday night at UK Medical Center. He was released Saturday. And a police officer was injured.
Late Friday night, Chief Beatty also confirmed that Hutchinson's wife was killed.
Her body lay in the yard into the evening, but police were unable to determine whether she was dead because they could not reach her.
The scene was near Old Richmond Rd. on Adams Lane. That's in far southern Fayette County, across the Kentucky River from Madison County.
Here's how this situation began....There was an initial call of domestic violence and shots fired at a woman around 3:30pm. More shots were fired when emergency crews arrived on scene. There were six emergency responders on scene when the shots were fired.
Emergency personnel were pinned down in the area for some time while police scrambled to the scene.
Police maintained contact with Hutchinson through much of the 7-hour ordeal.
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