CONFUSION REIGNS IN CASE THAT TOOK PLACE LESS THAN AN HOUR BEFORE SECOND RUSSELL COUNTY SHOOTING
MAY 5, 2024 – written by WADE QUEEN
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Kentucky State Police are investigating a pair of shooting incidents that left two people dead, one of whom was the shooter, and one with life-threatening injuries in Russell County in southern Kentucky Friday night, and that all three of the individuals were siblings.
These two shootings happened very shortly after a man was found dead from a gunshot wound just a few miles away in western Pulaski County, causing law enforcement officials to believe that all three deadly shooting scenes were connected.
According to Kentucky State Police Post 15 in Columbia, KY., in Russell County, on Friday, May 3, 2024 at approximately 7:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, KSP Post 15 received a call from Pulaski County 911 requesting assistance locating a Ford F150 believed to be operated by Angela Gosser, 56 of Russell Springs, KY. KSP Post 15 troopers responded to Russell County to attempt to locate the vehicle. At approximately 7:24 P.M., Central Standard Time, Russell County 911 contacted KSP Post 15 and requested investigative assistance with a deadly shooting incident that had occurred at a residence on South KY. 619 in Russell County, near the county line with Pulaski County.
Once KSP Post 15 troopers arrived at the scene, their preliminary investigation revealed that Angela Gosser arrived at a residence on Brown Ridge Road, off of South KY 619 belonging to her brother, Darryl Wilson, 58, of Jamestown, KY.
Once at her brother’s residence, Angela Gosser armed herself with a firearm and forced entry into her brother’s residence.
This action led to an apparent exchange of gunfire between Angela Gosser and Darryl Wilson, with both of the siblings receiving gunshot wounds, according to the Kentucky State Police.
Darryl Wilson was transported to the University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington for the treatment of life-threatening injuries that he received.
The gunshot wounds inccured by Angela Gosser were fatal, and she was pronounced deceased by the Russell County Coroner.
gWhile at the crime scene on South KY. 619, Kentucky State Police Post 15 received a request for a welfare check on Angela Gosser’s sister, Jennifer Wilson, 57, of Russell Springs, KY.
Family members of Jennifer Wilson reported they had been unable to make contact with her, which caused them to become concerned for her safety.
KSP Post 15 troopers and Russell County Sheriff Office deputies responded to Hammond Road in Russell County, where they located a Toyota Camry partially off of Hammond Road, in which Jennifer Wilson was found in the driver’s seat with apparent fatal gunshot wounds to the head.
According to the Kentucky State Police, before the incident at her brother’s residence, Angela Gosser encountered Jennifer Wilson on Hammond Road and fired multiple rounds into the passenger area of the vehicle, fatally striking Jennifer Wilson.
Jennifer Wilson was pronounced deceased by the Russell County Coroner.
This deadly double shooting case incident remains under investigation by the Kentucky State Police Post 15 and the Russell County Sheriff Office.
However, confusion still remains in the area, as shortly before the two Russell County shootings, law enforcement agencies had responded to shooting on the opposite side of the Pulaski County-Russell County line.
According to a press release on very early Saturday morning, Pulaski County Sheriff Bobby Jones reports that on Friday, May 3, 2024, at approximately 6:30 P.M., deputies with the Pulaski County Sheriff Office responded to the report of a gunshot victim on Brown Ridge Road in western Pulaski County.
When deputies arrived on the scene, they discovered a male victim lying beside the road approximately 200 feet from his residence deceased from what appeared to be a gunshot wound.
This shooting incident is believed to be tied to multiple shootings that also occurred later in neighboring Russell County. The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office was working the shooting s cene in Pulaski County, while the Kentucky State Police was working the shooting scenes in Russell County
These three shooting investigations are preliminary, but Sheriff Bobby Jones wanted everyone to know that there was no further danger to the public.
The Pulaski County Sheriff Office was assisted at the scene by the Somerset/Pulaski County EMS, Faubush Fire Department, the Kentucky State Police Post 11 in London, KY., in Laurel County, and the Pulaski Coroner Office.
