An Elizabethtown man is in custody after a nearly four-hour standoff with police with multiple shots fired and drone downed.
Jonathan Lee Harville, 51, is being charged with multiple felony counts, including attempted murder, attempted murder of a police officer and a federal charge for taking out the drone, according to Hardin County Sheriff John Ward.
Hardin County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call just before 9 p.m. Friday on a report of a man wielding a rifle in his front drive in the 100 block of Sissy Court.
Ward said he fired several shots at a deputy blocking Gaither Station Road and a few more times as deputies approached the scene.
Deputies then deployed the department’s drone, that has FLIR, or forward looking infrared, technology to track the suspect. With the drone, officers could see all his movements whether he was inside the house or outside.
Elizabethtown Police Department’s Special Response Team responded to the scene just outside city limits in the county, along with multiple other police agencies, including Kentucky State Police, whose vehicles lined Gaither Station Road preventing through traffic.
The Special Response Team was able to get him out of the house after deploying tear gas to force the suspect’s evacuation.
Ward said the suspect’s wife remained secured in the home during the incident and no officers returned fire on the suspect.
According to the arrest citation, Harville’s wife was hiding in the basement and officers had continual phone contact with her.
Harville also shot at a resident who was in their vehicle at the corner of Molly Court and Gaither Station Road and shot a truck a deputy and resident was using as cover near Gaither Station Road and Rebecca Ann Court. That projectile hit the radiator near where they were taking cover, according to the citation.
Neighboring residents were evacuated from their homes during the incident.
Ward said the suspect will be charged with multiple offenses of first-degree wanton endangerment of a police officer along with a federal charge for shooting down the drone.
Harville also is charged with first-degree criminal mischief, first-degree unlawful imprisonment and fourth-degree assault with minor injury.
Attempted murder is a Class B felony, punishable by 10 to 20 years in prison on each count, if convicted.
Harville is lodged in Hardin County Detention Center in lieu of a $50,000 cash bond.
Source: NE
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