Credit Liam Niemeyer / WKMS
The Murray Police Department reported two people are dead after a shooting near Murray State University’s campus on Tuesday.
MPD in a statement Wednesday said the department responded to the shooting at a home on Chestnut Street at 7:36 a.m., finding two adults and a child who appeared to have gunshot wounds.
Anthony Amoroso, 31, was pronounced dead at the scene by Calloway County Coroner Ricky Garland. Katherine Bryan, 46, and the child was transported by EMS to Murray-Calloway County Hospital and then taken to another hospital via helicopter. Bryan was later pronounced dead due to her injuries.
Nursing department helps run CFSB Center as regional vaccination site
Posted By: News Editor
March 4, 2021
Ben Overby
boverby2@murraystate.edu
Faculty and students in Murray State’s nursing program have been on the frontlines of the regional COVID-19 vaccination efforts at the CFSB Center.
Nursing students and faculty assisted in treating and monitoring patients during the three regional vaccination days that have taken place on campus.
Dina Byers, dean of the School of Nursing and Health Professions assisted the Calloway County Health Department and the Murray-Calloway County Hospital in the planning and implementation of the regional vaccination site.
Nursing students Madi Williams and Samantha McClure help administer the COVID-19. (Sam Stewart/The News)
Faculty and staff begin vaccinations
Posted By: News Editor
March 4, 2021
Gage Johnson
gjohnson17@murraystate.edu
Kentucky entered into Phase 1C on Monday, March 1, which allowed all Murray State faculty and staff who want to get the COVID-19 vaccine the opportunity to roll up their sleeves.
It couldn’t come soon enough for Stephanie Anderson, assistant professor of journalism and mass communications and faculty adviser for
The News.
“I was hoping that postsecondary educators would fall into the 1B phase as K-12 teachers did but that wasn’t the case,” Anderson said. “I have not seen my family but once in the last year and my 15-month-old son is missing out on those precious moments with his grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.”
Two people were injured in a pair of accidents Wednesday in Calloway County.
The first happened about 2:45 p.m. on Highway 94 East, with deputies saying Jacqueline Davenport of Almo was westbound and slowing to make a turn into a parking lot when she was rear-ended by an automobile driven by Dakota Davis of Murray.
Davis’ passenger, 41-year old Brandi Heard of Murray, was transported to Murray-Calloway County Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
The Calloway County Sheriff’s Office investigated another crash about 5 p.m. at the intersection of Highway 641 South and Tabard Drive.
Police say 78-year old Doris Darcus of Murray was northbound on 641 and attempted to turn left onto Tabard, driving into the path of a southbound vehicle driven by Devontae Wilson of New Concord.
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Lis Jones is a Calloway County resident and hospice nurse who started providing meals for her fellow healthcare workers after learning of the nursing shortage that is affecting the Murray-Calloway County Hospital’s (MCCH) critical care unit (CCU). Although Jones is a nurse, she said she is not credentialed to work on a CCU unit, and her inability to help was upsetting.
“It was a feeling of guilt that I wasn t over there working as a staff nurse on the floor. The few times that I ve had to wear PPE [personal protective equipment] and treat patients, I have found it extremely limiting and frustrating and hot and uncomfortable and scary,” Jones said. “My friends were facing terrible things.”