Hickman Mayor Fatally Shot
- {Hickman, Kentucky}...Hickman Police Chief Tony Grogan says, around 1:00 A.M. Monday morning, 30 year old Thomas Joseph Lattus walked into the police station and told an officer he had just shot Mayor Charles Murphy. An officer went to Murphy's home and found the mayor's body in the bedroom. Lattus has been charged with murder. Gerald Harris, whose niece is married to the mayor's son says the mayor had dated the suspect's stepmother Carole Lattus on and off for years, but there were no arguments between Lattus and any of Murphy's family. Hickman is located about 265 miles southwest of Louisville.
