one-time gubernatorial candidate Steve Nunn murders woman

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Nunn slits wrists after ex-fiance slain


After months of trying to use the legal system to protect herself from her former fiancé, 29-year-old Amanda Ross was found shot to death early Friday outside her home in downtown Lexington.

Hours later, the man she feared, former state representative and one-time gubernatorial candidate Steve Nunn, was taken into police custody at the edge of the Hart County cemetery where his parents are buried.

Nunn had slit his wrists after placing mementos on his parents' graves, officers said.

Nunn was charged with six counts of wanton endangerment of a police officer after police say he fired a .38-caliber handgun when officers began arriving at the cemetery. Nunn, 56, was listed in fair condition in a Bowling Green hospital late Friday.

Lt. Douglas Pape, Lexington police spokesman, said Nunn was a person that detectives "would like to talk to" in relation to Ross's death.

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Family and friends say Ross feared for her safety after an incident of domestic violence.

Late Friday night, her family released a statement: "Words cannot express the sorrow and emptiness that we all feel. We hope that this travesty will demonstrate that domestic violence can happen to anyone at anytime. And, as a family, we plan to fight for those victims, like Amanda, that cannot fight for themselves."
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another woman lost

there are more women in the world then men. seems like we should be able to something about men's murderous ways?

about a man murdering a woman, it had been one about a black man murdering a white man and you wrote seems like we should be able to do something about black people's murdering ways. I fail to see any difference here.

when the two have a falling out over which NFL team is the one to bet on for their fantasy football league.

However, a surprising number of men DO go hunting their former wives and girlfriends.

But not all men, not even an appreciable fraction. We should avoid sweeping generalizations.

Yes it's true that some men are murderous.

99.9% have not killed anyone.

I've never hurt a woman, nor would I. Give me a break.

and neither did he confess. Yes, likely he did commit the murder, but why not just stick to the facts as they are now?

Doing something about "men's murderous ways" is interesting. Women also have murderous ways, although to a far lesser degree, but that is of little comfort to the victims.

All mothers are women (duh!) and they should wield a lot of power in the raising of their sons since it seems that fathers are not much involved (on average) in the raising of their children. But does society have more of an impact upon the socialization of males and how they respect, esteem, and relate to women? I don't think there is a simple answer to this problem.