‘Just came home to a disaster’: Woman says she found suspect accused of killing Ky. deputy dead inside home

RUSSELL SPRINGS, Ky. (WKYT) - There are still a lot of questions surrounding what led to the violence Monday evening in a Russell Springs trailer park.

One woman says she came home to a dead man inside, and her trailer in horrible shape.

Other people in the town say the chaos that ensued at a nearby park had them fearing the violence would spread to them.

“Just came home to a disaster,” said Rita Campbell.

Campbell is thankful she wasn’t home when gunfire rang out at her trailer park Monday evening. And she could not believe what became of her home, and what or who she found inside her home.

“Guy shot a cop, and the guy came and ran into my camper. That’s where his life ended,” Campbell said. She lives at the Lakeway Mobile Home Court on Bluebird Lane.

Campbell says her home’s windows were busted out, and bullet holes were in the trees outside. She says police were everywhere. And there was a dead man inside her home.

“Apparently, they got him when he hit the hall and the bedroom. That is mainly where most of the blood is,” Campbell said.

While Campbell questions how she is going to clean up and repair her home, parents at a nearby park are asking why the violence at the trailer park turned into a call of an active shooter there.

“When we actually did reach the dugout there were parents that had put their kids underneath the bench, said Keli Jones.

“I saw a small community pull together to try to protect everyone’s children. Not just their own, you know. And then once we were able to get all of the children out of the park, and we gather all the other stuff up, parents just pulled together to protect children,” said Tara Robertson.

The city park is almost two miles from the mobile home park. Local officials say the confusion could have been started by police or scanner traffic at the trailer park, and some thought they heard city park.