Louisville, Kentucky

From the Louisville Courier-Journal of October 3, 2007

Robbery attempt leads to shooting of 2, including bystander

Two Louisville men -- one a bystander -- were shot during an attempted robbery early yesterday, police said.

Officers from the 4th Division were called to an apartment in the 700 block of South Clay Street just before 1 a.m. on the report of a robbery and shooting, said Alicia Smiley, spokeswoman for Louisville Metro Police.

The two people who live in the apartment, Jonathon Postell, 29, and Chiquita Cooper, 23, told police that they both shot at a man who broke in and tried to rob them, Smiley said. The intruder fired back, striking Postell in the ankle and the buttocks, she said.

Postell was transported to University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Smiley said.

Hearing the shooting, a neighbor ran out of his apartment to get his juvenile nephew inside and was hit in the shoulder, Smiley said. The wounded neighbor, who was not identified, later walked about five blocks to University Hospital, where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, she said.

It was not immediately clear which of the people firing shots wounded the neighbor, Smiley said.

Police are looking for the man Postell and Cooper said tried to rob them, Smiley said.

Meanwhile, Postell has been charged with possession of a handgun by a felon; and both he and Cooper have been charged with trafficking in a controlled substance, wanted endangerment, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, Smiley said.