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Car crashes into laundromat, 1 person injured

Police said the car was seen three blocks away from the laundromat driving away from a crime scene in the Taylor Berry neighborhood Sunday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Laundry Connection in South Louisville reopened Sunday following a wreck that nearly took out an entire side of the structure. 

Ladonna, a manager at Laundry Connection who asked WHAS11 to conceal her identity for safety reasons, said just after closing Sunday, a car came crashing through. 

“I am seeing a truck that is running from the police, about 100 miles an hour, pretty much,” she said. “[It] hit the curb the wrong way and pretty much, [it] airborne this truck into our building.”

Ladonna said in the crash, the driver hit her co-worker, who is expected to be okay.

Police said the car was seen three blocks away from the laundromat driving away from a crime scene in the Taylor Berry neighborhood Sunday.

Shortly after midnight, Louisville Metro Police (LMPD) say reports of a shooting came in at the 1400 block of Sale Avenue.

Upon arrival, LMPD said they found a woman, identified by the Jefferson County Coroner's Office as 63-year-old Paulette Ray, suffering from gunshot wounds. 

EMS was called to the scene and Ray was pronounced dead. 

An LMPD spokesperson said officers who responded to the shooting noticed a vehicle leaving the area around the same time and they tried to stop it.

The vehicle then fled and hit a structure in the 1300 block of Southgate Avenue, after which the driver ran away they said.

It is not known if the vehicle is related to the shooting from the 1400 block of Sale Avenue.

“"It was like fire! Fire! Fire! A whole lot of shots afterwards," Taniya, a neighbor who asked WHAS11 to conceal her identity for safety reasons, said. “We was looking at each other and we was like, ‘awe man something must've just went down.”

Taniya said this isn’t the first shooting to take place in her neighborhood in 2023. According to her, on Jan. 1, unidentified suspect(s) shot into her home.

LMPD’s Homicide Unit is currently investigating. 

Anyone with information is asked to call LMPD's anonymous crime tip hotline at 502-574-LMPD (5673) or utilize the online anonymous crime tip portal.

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