LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A trip for dinner Tuesday night ended in one of the scariest ways imaginable for one Louisville couple.
What You Need To Know
- A man suspected of shooting a police officer in Tennessee was shot and killed in a shootout with Kentucky State Police in Louisville Tuesday night
- The man, Samuel Quinton Edwards, led police on a chase that ended in the Valley Station neighborhood
- Video taken by witnesses shows multiple shots fired after the suspect’s car crashed with another car at an intersection
“Me and my boyfriend were actually going to the Cracker Barrel down the street,” Blake Curran said.
Curran and her boyfriend, John Maldonado, were at the intersection of Dixie Highway and Ashby Lane in Louisville when Kentucky State Police got into a shootout with a man suspected of shooting an officer near Nashville.
“I thought I was in Grand Theft Auto, for a second,” Maldonado said. “I thought I was playing a video game; that’s honestly what it was like.”
And Curran said she was going into hysterics.
“That’s just not something you see on a daily basis, or at all,” she said.
The Metro Nashville Police Department said on Twitter that the man, Samuel Quinton Edwards, died in the shootout with KSP.
Investigators in Nashville say he shot an officer on Monday in Henderson, Tenn. The officer suffered non-critical injuries.
KSP is investigating Tuesday’s shooting and hasn’t released any more information.
"To protect the integrity of an ongoing investigation, it is KSP’s standard operating procedure not to release specific details until vital witnesses have been interviewed and pertinent facts gathered," the agency said in a statement.
Curran and Maldonado said they saw officers speeding after the car as they came up on the intersection.
“I’m telling her to brace for impact because you see stuff like this happen all the time, you just don’t want it to be you,” Maldonado said.
They say the driver hit another car right in front of them before the shootout happened.
Once they were able to leave the area, Curran said they pulled off somewhere to gather their thoughts, and then they finished their dinner plans.
“We went to Blaze Pizza out in the St. Matthews area, and went straight home and went to bed,” she said.
She said they’re both doing OK now, but it’s hard not to wonder how much worse things could have been.