UPDATE: One Dead, One In Custody After Shooting In NKY

The incident happened Thursday morning in a moving vehicle near Verona.

Tommy Hightower. Photo by the Boone County Sheriff's Office.

Update published at 4:19 p.m.:

Tommy L. Hightower, 32, of Jasper, Alabama is charged with one count of Murder and is currently lodged at the Boone County Detention Center. 

Investigators say Hightower and Girlis H. Serratt, 36, were traveling from Alabama to Michigan to visit friends. Their trip fell short of Michigan when both individuals decided to seek employment in the tri-state area. 

Just before the shooting, Hightower and Serratt allegedly engaged in a verbal argument about whether to remain in the tri-state area or return to Alabama. 

 

Original story published Thursday, June 3 at 12:49 p.m.:

(Verona, Ky.) – One person is in custody after a fatal shooting in northern Kentucky.

Boone County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to southbound Interstate 75/71 around 8:36 a.m. regarding a person who was shot inside of a moving vehicle.

The driver, who remains unidentified, called Boone County Public Safety Communications Center just after the shooting, stating that he shot the passenger and was still driving southbound on the interstate.

He was instructed to take the Verona exit where deputies were staged.

The driver pulled into a gas station off the exit and immediately complied with deputies and was taken into custody.

The victim, also unidentified, was transported to UC Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

Detectives are working to positively identify the victim and are withholding the name of the shooter as the investigation is ongoing.

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