GUNMAN KILLS PARENTS, GIRLFRIEND, HER MOM

Paintsville, Ky. — A Kentucky gunman killed his parents, his girlfriend and his girlfriend’s mother in a weekend shooting spree before ending his own life, State Police said Sunday. State Police Trooper William Petry on Sunday released the victims’ names and their relationships with the presumed shooter, Joseph Nickell. Nickell’s parents, James and Arlene Nickell, were gunned down Saturday at a residence in the McKenzie Branch area of Flatgap, Ky., and Joseph Nickell’s girlfriend, Lindsey Vanhoose, and her mother, Patricia Vanhoose, later were fatally shot at an apartment in nearby Paintsville, Petry said in a statement.