A gunman shot a state trooper during a traffic stop, carjacked a vehicle then drove to a church where he killed two women and wounded 2 men on Sunday, Lexington police said.

The Lexington Police Department is investigating a homicide after a man was found shot to death on Darien Drive Tuesday afternoon. According to police, officers were dispatched around 1:25 p.m. to a home in the 1800 block of Darien Drive for a report of an unresponsive person.

A Kentucky State Police trooper is recovering after being shot during a traffic stop that preceded Sunday's deadly church shooting in rural Lexington.

Lupe Ramirez runs Northstar Maintenance, a commercial cleaning company in Laurel County. Their building off Old Whitley Road was one of the many devastated by the deadly May 16 tornado. One security expert says active shootings in churches have gone up across the nation in the past ten years

WOMAN IS SPEAKING OUT TONIGHT ABOUT THE MOMENT SHE AND SEVERAL OTHER DRIVERS HELPED. THE KSP TROOPER, WHO WAS SHOT SUNDAY. WLKY’S JAMIE MAYES, SAT DOWN WITH HER THIS EVENING AND JOINS US LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM WITH MORE.

In the aftermath of Sunday’s tragic shooting, classmates and instructors are honoring the life of 34-year-old Christina Combs, who was set to graduate this December as a nursing student from BCTC.

The idea that you’d be at church on a Sunday and be subjected to violence is antithetical to what our country is," Gov. Andy Beshear said.