A man accused of fatally shooting three Kentucky law enforcement officers has died while in custody awaiting trial for murder, authorities say. The suspect died from an apparent suicide, prosecutors say.
Kentucky State Police officers block off a street in Allen, a small town in Floyd County, Kentucky, July 1, 2022, as the investigation continues into a shooting in which three police officers were killed.three Kentucky law enforcement officers in an ambush last year has died while in custody awaiting trial for murder, authorities said.
This booking photo provided by Pike County, Kentucky, jail shows Lance Storz. Two officers were killed when Storz opened fire on police attempting to serve a warrant at a home in eastern Kentucky on June 30, 2022, authorities said.He was found unresponsive around 6:37 a.m.
Storz had pleaded not guilty in the case and was next scheduled to appear in court on March 23 for a pretrial conference, online court records show.Brent Turner, the commonwealth attorney for Floyd County whose office was prosecuting the case, said in a statement to ABC News that had it gone to trial, they would have been seeking the death penalty, though added it is unlikely it would have been carried out if Storz had been convicted.
"So the only way he would ever have been put to death was if he did it himself and it appears that he has done that," Turner said in a statement. "I know the victims' families will have mixed emotions and may, on some level, feel cheated by this. But in the end it will probably be to their benefit," the statement continued. "Lance Storz is gone from this earth and the families will not be forced to endure a painful trial and the decades of appeals and uncertainty that come with a death sentence had he received one."
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