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Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Annie O’Connell determined on Thursday that Cane Madden is mentally incompetent to stand trial and unlikely to regain competency in the near future, WDRB-TV reported. Madden was charged with first-degree rape, assault and robbery in the 2019 attack on the girl. A Louisville police arrest citation says officers responded to a report of a girl beaten and robbed of her iPad and found her with a fractured skull and injuries indicating sexual assault. It says Madden was seen nearby and questioned, telling detectives “intimate details” of the assault. Madden wa...

Bush was sentenced Tuesday in Jefferson Circuit Court to life without parole for the murders of Maurice Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones on Oct. 24, 2018.  He pleaded guilty but mentally ill, which means the Kentucky Department of Corrections will be obliged to provide him treatment and medication. In a statement, Commonwealth's Attorney Tom Wine said, "Vickie Jones and Maurice Stallard were senselessly murdered because of the color of their skin. Our entire community and commonwealth had suffered a loss because of racial enmity." Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Milja Zgonjanin, who prose...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Gregory Bush will spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting and killing two Black people at a Louisville Kroger in October 2018 after pleading guilty “but mentally ill” to murder in state court Tuesday.  He is still facing federal hate crime charges as prosecutors believe Bush, who is white, targeted Maurice Stallard and Vickie Jones because of their skin color. He is scheduled to plead guilty in U.S. District Court in February. Bush said little during his plea in Jefferson Circuit Court to the two charges of murder, attempted murder and want...