LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in the city of Anchorage on Tuesday morning.
Around 3:30 a.m., a woman came into Anchorage Police with "serious wounds" from a domestic violence situation, police say. According to the arrest citation, her eye was "severely swollen" and bruised, to the extent that it was swollen shut.
Officers discovered the man she accused of causing her injuries, her ex-husband and live-in roommate Bernard Higgins, had a felony warrant out of Boone County and St. Matthews police officers decided to go to their Anchorage home in the 1000 block of Bellewood Road.
Around 4:45 a.m., St. Matthews Police officers on scene tried to make contact with Higgins when he approached the door, then barricaded himself inside.
According to the arrest citation, Higgins said to officers multiple times through the door that if they came in, the officers would "go to heaven" along with him, and he was not afraid to meet his maker.
St. Matthews Police Chief Barry Wilkerson said Higgins then approached officers while holding a deadly weapon in a "threatening manner". According to the arrest citation, the weapon Higgins threatened officers with was a knife.
A St. Matthews police officer fired a shot at the man, making contact. The department's SWAT team assisted in getting the suspect out of the home.
Higgins was then transported to UofL Hospital.
Higgins is charged with assault (second degree-domestic violence), terroristic threatening (third degree) and resisting arrest.
Since this is an officer-involved shooting, Louisville Metro Police's Public Integrity Unit is handling the investigation.
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