Slaughter facing numerous charges

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Authorities have charged Lee E. Slaughter, 64,  of Pikeville with numerous charges surrounding the misuse of skid-steer on June 28, according to Detective Drake Brown with the Bledsoe County Sheriff’s Department.

Slaughter was grading Kelly Lane when he reportedly left the property he was using the skid-steer on and veered onto another person’s property. Becca Thurman confronted Slaughter and told him to get off the property, said Detective Brown, and Slaughter reportedly got off the skid-steer and started fighting with Thurman. Then Scott McPherson came out of the house and joined in the fight, said the detective.

He said Slaughter reportedly discharged a firearm during the altercation. Slaughter got back on the skid-steer then rammed McPherson’s truck, explained the detective, causing McPherson to fall beneath the truck. McPherson found a way out from under the truck, said Detective Brown, and he and Thurman went to Erlanger Bledsoe for treatment to their injuries.

While a the hospital, it was reported “someone was taking a bulldozer through their house” said Detective Brown. When officers arrived, they determined Slaughter had run the skid-steer through the home and into a parked vehicle causing extensive damage to about half the residence and everything in its path, said Detective Brown.

Authorities discovered the skid-steer Slaughter was using had actually been stolen out of Texas.

Detective Brown charged Slaughter with criminal homicide, noting there is no statute for attempted criminal homicide so Slaughter was charged with criminal homicide as directed by the District Attorney’s office.

He is charged with two counts of aggravated assault dealing with the firing of the weapon, assault of Thurman, criminal attempt, possession of a firearm while under the influence, possession of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, theft of property and vandalism.

Slaughter is currently out of jail on a $100,000 bond, awaiting an August 3 General Sessions Court appearance.