![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyle-Smith.jpg?resize=125%2C125\")
\nA wanted suspect is in custody after deputies say he fired a shotgun at law enforcement, crashed through a garage door, and led a high-speed chase following a standoff Tuesday night in Philpot.<\/p>\n
\nA wanted suspect is in custody after deputies say he fired a shotgun at law enforcement, crashed through a garage door, and led a high-speed chase following a standoff Tuesday night in Philpot.<\/p>\n
The Daviess County Sheriff\u2019s Office says deputies, Kentucky State Police, Daviess County Fire Department, and the Thruston-Philpot Fire Department all responded to an area of Old Highway 54 around 6:50 p.m. after 37-year-old Kyle Smith refused to surrender to deputies who were attempting to serve arrest warrants on him.<\/p>\n
According to the sheriff\u2019s office, Smith was wanted for first-degree burglary out of Daviess County and other felonies out of Spencer County, Indiana.<\/p>\n
Deputies confirmed Smith was inside the pole barn-style residence armed with at least one long gun. Authorities say they requested the Kentucky State Police SWAT Team to the scene while negotiators communicated with him.<\/p>\n
After roughly three hours, deputies say Smith fired a 12-gauge shotgun at them from inside the building, drove a Nissan Maxima through the closed garage door, and tried to flee. Officials say he hit a parked truck he owns and struck a parked Daviess County Sheriff’s Office vehicle before driving away on Old Highway 54.<\/p>\n
Deputies and troopers pursued Smith along Old Highway 54 and Highway 142 at speeds near 100 mph until he lost control and crashed.<\/p>\n
Smith was taken into custody and transported to the hospital for evaluation. When released, he was booked into the Daviess County Detention Center on charges of 12 counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, two counts of first-degree criminal mischief, second-degree criminal mischief, and first-degree fleeing or evading law enforcement. He is being held on a $100,000 cash bond and scheduled to be in court on October 16<\/p>\n
No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Daviess County Sheriff’s Office says the incident remains under investigation and additional charges are possible.
\nSource: WBKO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A wanted suspect is in custody after deputies say he fired a shotgun at law enforcement, crashed through a garage door, and led a high-speed chase following a standoff Tuesday night in Philpot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":58492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-main-news","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-fdp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-10-25 01:36:10","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[69],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyle-Smith.jpg?fit=704%2C480&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58493,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58491\/revisions\/58493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}