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Father and Son Dead in Murder-Suicide

Posted: Mon 12:20 PM, Oct 30, 2006

COLD SPRING, Ky. (AP) - Campbell County police say 22-year-old
Christoper Taylor his 48-year-old father, Gary Taylor, are dead of
gunshot wounds in what is apparently a murder and suicide.
Police were called about 6:50 this morning and received reports
of a man firing a shotgun at his father, then using a handgun to
kill himself during an early morning argument.
Police say Christopher Taylor died at the scene. His father was
flown to University Hospital in Cincinnati, where he died about
eight o'clock on the operating table.
Campbell County Police Chief Keith Hill said other family
members were in the house and witnessed the shootings. Hill said
police are still uncertain about what the two men were arguing
about. No one else was hurt.
Cold Spring is four miles from Covington.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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