The Strange Story Of Steve Nunn

Here in the NKY the big story is the bizarre story of former Republican lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate Steve Nunn, who was arrested at his parents' grave site near Bowling Green this morning just hours after his ex-fiancee' was found dead. Nunn had apparently slit his own wrists.

Nunn, 56, is being treated at the Bowling Green Medical Center where a medical center spokeswoman said he was in fair condition Friday afternoon.

Kentucky state police say Nunn has been charged with six counts of wanton endangerment of police officers for pointing or “at least brandishing” a gun at officers who found him at the Cosby Church Cemetery in Hart County. He will be jailed on the charges once he is released from the medical center, they said.

Nunn's ex-fiancée, Amanda Ross, 29, was pronounced dead Friday morning at Lexington's University of Kentucky Medical Center after she was shot in a parking lot at 541 W. Short St., just before 6:30 a.m. Friday morning, according to Lexington police and the Fayette County coroner.

The Lexington/Fayette County Metro Police Department contacted state police in Bowling Green to look for Nunn, “a subject whom they wanted to question concerning an earlier homicide this date in Lexington,” according to a statement from state police.

Barren County Sheriff Chris Eaton said Lexington police called his office Friday morning, asking him to look for Nunn.

Eaton said when he did not find Nunn at his house, he headed for the old Nunn family farm where Steve Nunn grew up. That's when he said he got a call that Nunn had been found at the Cosby Church Cemetery where his father, former Gov. Louie B. Nunn, and mother, Beula Nunn, are buried.

He said Nunn was found between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. (Central) at the Cosby Church Cemetery. He was bleeding from wounds to both wrists, Eaton said.

Nunn ran for Governor back in 2002, and had recently resigned his position as Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet of Health and Family Services...for a domestic violence incident.

Now the young woman is dead. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but Nunn's actions are of a man who knows exactly what he did, and can no longer live with his actions. He tried to take the coward's way out, and he had a history of domestic violence (and worked for Health and Family Services for the love of God.)

I do not personally believe in the man's innocence in this situation.