Accused of sex abuse, lawmaker in Ky. dead by ‘probable suicide’

Kentucky state Rep. Dan Johnson has died by “a probable suicide” two days after allegations surfaced that he had sexually abused a teenage girl at the church where he was a pastor.

Bullitt County Coroner David Billings said Johnson was found with a single gunshot wound to the head in Mount Washington.

Johnson was accused by a woman of molesting her when she was 17 after a New Year’s party in 2012, according to a wide-ranging report published Monday by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting.