"It Was A Bad Situation"

"RUSSELVILLE, KY — Two people are dead after an ex-boyfriend chased down the mother of his children in an apartment complex off of 9th Street in Russellville on Wednesday afternoon, shooting her and then himself.

"At approximately 3:30 p.m., 911 dispatch received several calls of a black male wielding a gun while chasing a white female at Logan Heights apartments. When officers arrived it was too late for 34-year-old Melissa Green, who was lifeless on the ground where 48-year-old Kenneth Temple had shot her in the head.

"According to Detective Kenneth Edmonds, of the Russellville Police Department, Temple was still alive when he arrived on scene.

"`I asked him to put down his weapon,` said Edmonds, who added that he gave the command twice before Temple turned the gun on himself. `It was a bad situation.`"

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