{"id":305144,"date":"2025-07-30T23:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305144\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:30:12","slug":"kentucky-writer-goes-in-depth-on-doug-harless-killing-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305144\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky writer goes in-depth on Doug Harless’ killing in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON, Ky. (LEX 18) \u2014 A Kentucky writer has been talking with several people in the Laurel County community ever since Doug Harless was killed<\/a> by London police in Lily.<\/p>\n

Zach Clifton, who will be a sophomore at Yale College, wrote an article entitled “A Killing in Kentucky,” released by the Oxford American last week. He said being from Corbin inspired him to write the piece.<\/p>\n

“I hope what they get out of the article is that there are unanswered questions that people should keep asking,” Clifton said.<\/p>\n

At 11:54 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2024, surveillance video showed London officers at Harless’ home attempting to serve a search warrant. According to an affidavit, officers knocked on the front door and announced themselves. They then made entry through the front door, and found Harless armed with a gun. That’s when an officer fired multiple shots killing Harless.<\/p>\n

Laurel County dispatch audio confirmed police were supposed to be serving a search warrant to 489 Vanzant Road, but instead arrived at 511 Vanzant Road, Harless’ home, with a search warrant for stolen lawn equipment.<\/p>\n

Hours before the shooting, Hobert Buttery was arrested<\/a> by Manchester police for stealing lawn equipment from the property of Laurel County Judge Executive David Westerfield. The arrest citation said camera footage led police to Buttery.<\/p>\n

In addition to police mistakenly arriving at the wrong home, there’s no police body camera footage showing the raid or Harless’ killing because London Police, as a cost-saving measure, suspended that technology in March of 2023.<\/p>\n

“The City of London may have to agree to a multi-million dollar settlement because of this huge mistake,” Clifton said.<\/p>\n

For now, the shooting remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, Ky. (LEX 18) \u2014 A Kentucky writer has been talking with several people in the Laurel County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,38158,393,4884,34840,40172,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-doug-harless","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-ky","13":"tag-laurel-county","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944791255782417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}