Last week, the daily paper with reporter Tyler Whetstone did a story on a Knox County Sheriffs Department incident back in April 2022, about 90 days ago. Two underage (one legally licensed) Powell students in a KCSO chase that ended in a crash and ultimately the two teens deaths. I did a story on April 14, here the day after the accident. On April 18, I had this follow-up story where KCSO was withholding the report. On April 20, I posted an op-ed here that KCSO should do better. The current policy “if there is one” on chases is ending in needless loss of life. You can not protect and serve, if you keep chasing people off the road and they die.
Now, before everyone gets all pissy at me, My wife and I raised three teenagers and I don’t want to bury them before they bury me, they are in their 20s and 30s today. So, I am approaching this as a father who has by the grace of God not walked that road.
I visited the crash site a few days after the wreck, I have photos of the front bumper and the area of ground where likely these two teens took their last breath. Out of respect for the families I am not publishing those photos. But again, I will write, KCSO Do Better!
