LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A former Kentucky lawmaker slit his wrists and threatened police Friday after his former fiancée was found fatally shot, authorities said.
Steve Nunn, a former state legislator, had not been charged with the slaying. Lexington police Lt. Doug Pape said Nunn is "a guy we want to talk to" about the shooting of his former fiancée, Amanda Ross.
Nunn was being held under police guard at a hospital Friday night after being charged with six counts of wanton endangerment. Police said he brandished a .38-caliber handgun in front of six police officers at a cemetery where his father, former Gov. Louie B. Nunn, and mother are buried, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
Ross was found with a gunshot wound Friday in a parking lot of a town house community where she lived in Lexington and was pronounced dead at 7:09 a.m. at University of Kentucky Hospital. A neighbor reported hearing five shots and screams.
Police found Nunn in the cemetery, about 100 miles from Lexington, at 10:30 a.m.
In March, a Fayette County judge ordered Nunn to avoid contact with Ross for one year because of a domestic violence incident in February, the Herald-Leader said.
Nunn, 56, was in fair condition and is to be moved to the Hart County Jail when he is released from the hospital, authorities said.
He lost the 2003 Republican gubernatorial primary to then-U.S. Rep. Ernie Fletcher, who became the state's first GOP governor since Nunn's father. Fletcher lost in 2007 to Steve Beshear, and Nunn served in Beshear's cabinet until he resigned after the February domestic violence incident, the Herald-Leader said.
