The charging document has provided new information regarding the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office investigation into a shooting earlier this month on Grayson Springs Road.
The shooting occurred at approximately 7:40 Saturday night July 9 at a residence in the 6600 block of Grayson Springs Road.
Initially, the responding investigator, Grayson County Sgt. Jason Luedke, was told at the scene that the shooting of 42-year-old Jeremy Stinnett was perpetrated by 71-year-old Kathy Cann, who admitted to Luedke that she shot Stinnett.
Stinnett resided with Patricia G. Hook in an apartment adjacent to Cann’s residence. It was Hook who made the 911 call reporting the shooting.
(According to the arrest citation, Luedke wrote that the shooting “appeared to be a case of self-defense or defense of another.” Further investigation by police, according to Sheriff Norman Chaffins, has shown that the shooting is not considered “self defense or defense of another.”)
Cann, 71, was transported to the Leitchfield Police Department and interviewed by police for around two hours. She was neither arrested nor cited, although it is possible authorities were, at that time, planning to present the case to a grand jury for possible indictment.
During the course of Luedke’s investigation, he obtained and listened to the 911 call made by Hook where she at first told Grayson County Dispatch that “Eddie Cann shot Jeremy Stinnett” before changing her mind, saying that “Kathy Cann shot him,” the citation states.
Eddie Cann, Kathy Cann’s 39-year-old son, was not present at the residence when police arrived on scene following the shooting.
Then, on Tuesday, July 19, Chaffins advised Luedke that Stinnett had recovered sufficiently from his potentially fatal wound to speak with investigators.
Luedke on Tuesday evening traveled to University of Louisville Hospital to interview Stinnett.
According to the citation, Stinnett told Luedke that it was Eddie Cann who shot him.
“Jeremy Stinnett then advised me that Eddie Cann came inside his bedroom area in the shared apartment and shot him with a ‘snub nose’ handgun,” Luedke wrote in the citation.
After returning from his interview with Stinnett Tuesday night, Luedke and other deputies traveled to Kathy and Eddie Cann’s Grayson Springs Road property. They were both transported to the Leitchfield Police Department to be interviewed.
Prior to the interview with Kathy Cann, she was mirandized “and agreed to answer questions.”
The citation states that during the interview, “Kathy Cann admitted that she lied about who shot Jeremy Stinnett” … and that she was “trying to protect her son, Eddie Cann, and she didn’t want him to go back to prison.”
The citation further states, “She (Kathy Cann) advised (that) during the incident Eddie Cann came into her residence with a small handgun and put it down on the counter and told her that he just shot Jeremy Stinnett.”
Eddie Cann, after being mirandized, was interviewed and claimed he did not shoot Stinnett “and he also denied being there during the shooting,” according to the citation.
(Photo: The night of the shooting, police and Kathy Cann in the driveway in front of the apartment where the shooting took place)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
