Police: 2 killed in Oldham County shooting were involved in Ohio abduction

WEBVTT INCIDENT UNFOLDED. >> THE ON-RAMP WHERE THE SHOOTING HAPPENED IS NOT FAR FROM WHERE I’M STANDING. TONIGHT, WE’VE LEARNED THE WOMAN TRIED TO GET HELP NEARLY AN HOUR FROM HERE WHEN SHE TOLD SOMEONE AT A GAS STATION THAT SHE WAS IN TROUBLE. >> WHEN SHE CAME IN, SHE DIDN’T SAY IT REAL LOUD, SHE JUST KINDA MOVED HER LIPS, SHE SAID HELP ME. >> IT WAS A QUICK, NEARLY SILENT CRY FOR HELP AT THIS GAS STATION IN GLENCOE, KENTUCKY THAT SPARKED A CHAOTIC CHAIN OF EVENTS. >> REAL QUIET AND HE WAS KINDA LEADING HER TO THE BATHROOM. >> EMPLOYEES HERE SAY A MAN AND YOUNG WOMAN, IDENTIFIED BY POLICE AS TY’RELL POUNDS AND SKYLAR WILLIAMS, CAME INTO THE STORE AROUND 3:15 MONDAY AFTERNOON. POUNDS PREPAID FOR GAS, WILLIAMS WENT TO THE BATHROOM. >> HE WAS KIND OF HOLDING HER HAND. LEADING HER. I JUST THOUGHT THEY WERE BOYFRIEND AND GIRLFRIEND OR HUSBAND AND WIFE. >> WHEN WILLIAMS LEFT THE BATHROOM, THE TWO WALKED BACK TO THE MINIVAN THEY SHOWED UP IN, BUT EMPLOYEES SAY THAT’S WHEN POUNDS REALIZED A CUSTOMER WAS CALLING 911, SO HE DROVE OFF, WITHOUT FILLING UP HIS TANK. >> HE HURRIED OUT OF THE PARKING LOT, I WATCHED HIM GOING OUT, AND THEN HE HOPPED ON THE INTERSTATE. >> KENTUCKY STATE POLICE TRIED TO PULL THEM OVER, BUT POUNDS WOULDN’T STOP. EVENTUALLY, THE CHASE ENDED AT THE CRESTWOOD EXIT ON I-71 WITH A SHOOTING. POUNDS AND WILLIAMS WERE KILLED. INVESTIGATORS SAY A TROOPER HEARD A GUNSHOT COMING FROM THE VEHICLE. THE TROOPER THEN SHOT POUNDS. POLICE SAY WILLIAMS WAS ALSO SHOT AND KILLED, BUT HAVEN’T SAID WHO FIRED THAT DEADLY SHOT. KENTUCKY STATE POLICE SAY POUNDS ABDUCTED WILLIAMS AT THE OHIO STATE MANSFIELD CAMPUS. >> HI, SOMEONE JUST KIDNAPPED A GIRL ON CAMPUS WITH A GUN. >> POLICE SAY WILLIAMS AND POUNDS KNEW EACH OTHER AND HE FORCED HER INTO A CAR AT GUNPOINT MONDAY MORNING. SOMEONE ELSE ON CAMPUS MADE THE 911 CALL. >> THEY’RE ALREADY GONE. HE STOLE HER. HE PUT HER IN THE CAR AND POINTED A GUN. >> BACK IN GALLATIN COUNTY, EMPLOYEES SAY THEY WERE SAD TO HEAR HOW THINGS ENDED.- >> IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE HERE, ESPECIALLY IF HE KNEW HE WAS OUT CALLING BEFORE THEN BECAUSE HE COULD HAVE HA

New details have been released about Monday's police chase that ended with two people dead along Exit 14 in Crestwood.The male suspect has been identified as Ty'rell Pounds, 24, of Mansfield, Ohio. The female victim has been identified as Skylar Williams, 20, of Mansfield, Ohio.Ohio authorities confirmed that Pounds was the suspect in the abduction of Williams.A caller in Gallatin County reported seeing someone in distress at a gas station who was forced into a vehicle by a male and called police just before 3:30 p.m.Williams asked a customer for help at the gas station in Glencoe. "When she came in she didn't say it real loud, she just kind of moved her lips, she said 'help me'," Cowboys Food Stores clerk Kelly Mayhew said. Mayhew said Pounds prepaid for gas while Williams used the bathroom at the store. "Real quiet and he was kind of leading her to the bathroom," he said. The couple left the store, and Mayhew said Pounds noticed the customer on the phone with police. "He hurried out of the parking lot. I watched him going out and then he hopped on the interstate," he said. Police observed a vehicle traveling through Henry County that matched the caller's provided description. Troopers attempted to initiate a traffic stop, but the driver fled.The pursuit continued on I-71 South into Oldham County and ended with Pounds and Williams being shot around 4 p.m. Monday on the Exit 14 ramp to Crestwood.Officials said that while attempting to apprehend Pounds, a trooper heard a gunshot inside the vehicle. The trooper drew his weapon, fired and hit Pounds.Pounds was pronounced dead the scene. Williams was transported to University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.Investigators have not said who fired the shot that killed Williams. No officers were injured in the incident. Officials said no body camera video of the incident is available, as KSP and Oldham County authorities are not equipped with the technology. The investigation is ongoing.

CRESTWOOD, Ky. —

New details have been released about Monday's police chase that ended with two people dead along Exit 14 in Crestwood.

The male suspect has been identified as Ty'rell Pounds, 24, of Mansfield, Ohio. The female victim has been identified as Skylar Williams, 20, of Mansfield, Ohio.

Ohio authorities confirmed that Pounds was the suspect in the abduction of Williams.

A caller in Gallatin County reported seeing someone in distress at a gas station who was forced into a vehicle by a male and called police just before 3:30 p.m.

Williams asked a customer for help at the gas station in Glencoe.

"When she came in she didn't say it real loud, she just kind of moved her lips, she said 'help me'," Cowboys Food Stores clerk Kelly Mayhew said.

Mayhew said Pounds prepaid for gas while Williams used the bathroom at the store.

"Real quiet and he was kind of leading her to the bathroom," he said.

The couple left the store, and Mayhew said Pounds noticed the customer on the phone with police.

"He hurried out of the parking lot. I watched him going out and then he hopped on the interstate," he said.

Police observed a vehicle traveling through Henry County that matched the caller's provided description. Troopers attempted to initiate a traffic stop, but the driver fled.

Here’s part of the 911 call made in connection to the abduction of Skylar Williams. Police say Ty’Rell Pounds abducted her at gunpoint Monday on the campus of Ohio State University at Mansfield. pic.twitter.com/OyPAyl0rsS
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The pursuit continued on I-71 South into Oldham County and ended with Pounds and Williams being shot around 4 p.m. Monday on the Exit 14 ramp to Crestwood.

Officials said that while attempting to apprehend Pounds, a trooper heard a gunshot inside the vehicle. The trooper drew his weapon, fired and hit Pounds.

Pounds was pronounced dead the scene. Williams was transported to University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Investigators have not said who fired the shot that killed Williams.

No officers were injured in the incident.

Officials said no body camera video of the incident is available, as KSP and Oldham County authorities are not equipped with the technology.

The investigation is ongoing.

Police: 2 killed in Oldham County shooting were involved in Ohio abduction

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