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Man arrested, charged with murder in Fayette Mall shooting

Lexington police took 19-year-old Xavier Hardin into custody after the mall shooting left one person dead and two others injured Sunday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A man has been charged with the fatal shooting of a teenager at a Lexington mall.

Xavier Hardin, 19, was arrested Monday in connection with Sunday’s shooting Fayette Mall.

Hardin is accused of firing shots outside of the Bath & Body Works store that killed 17-year-old Kenneth Wayne Bottoms Jr. and fleeing the scene.

Police said the shooting was an isolated incident believed to have stemmed from a verbal altercation between Hardin, Bottoms and two others.

Two others, a 41-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl, were uninvolved bystanders who were injured in the shooting. Police said the two have non-life threatening injuries.

Police also took into custody Nasir Lyons and Cion Townsend, both 18-years-old, on tampering with physical evidence charges.

Hardin has been charged with murder and two counts of first-degree assault.

He’s currently booked at the Fayette County Detention Center.

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