Kentucky man charged with attempted murder after pursuit sends deputy to hospital

A man in Pulaski County has been charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer after an encounter Tuesday that sent a sheriff’s deputy to a hospital.

Roy “Hoopie” Glover, 29, is also charged with fleeing from police and receiving stolen property in connection with the incident, according to court records.

The events leading to the charges began Tuesday when a Pulaski County sheriff’s deputy spotted a vehicle that he knew to be stolen, according to court records. The deputy, who had a juvenile in his car with him, called for assistance.

A Science Hill Police Department assistant chief responded and found the car at the intersection of Ky. 70 and Ky. 1247. The assistant chief tried to pull the car over, but the driver fled at a high rate of speed, according to Glover’s arrest citation.

Officers from multiple agencies followed the car southbound on U.S. 27 before turning onto East Frog Hollow Road, according to court records. The car then turned onto a private drive that went up a hill.

Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Jon Williams and a Kentucky State Police trooper got out of their vehicles at the entrance of the driveway and Williams attempted to set up a tire deflation device, according to court records. But while he was trying to deploy the device, the suspect’s car began traveling out of the driveway at a high rate of speed, according to Glover’s arrest citation.

The car struck Williams and the trooper fired his weapon at the car, “due to being in fear for his life, the life of Lt. Williams and of other citizens and motorists in the area,” according to Glover’s arrest citation.

Williams couldn’t move to the left or right when the car came at him, so he jumped into the air to avoid being hit by the front of the car, said Deputy Karl Clinard, spokesman for the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office. But the hood and windshield of the car hit him, throwing him into the air, Clinard said.

The car reportedly continued west on East Frog Hollow Road before stopping behind a residence on West Highway 625 in Science Hill. Two men then reportedly got out of the car and ran on foot, according to court records.

Officers found Glover in a field behind the residence, according to court records. He was uninjured.

Officers then found Michael Wilson, who was suffering an injury to his neck, according to court records. He was taken to University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital to be treated.

Glover told investigators that he had been in the passenger seat during the pursuit, according to court records. When investigators asked him why the passenger seat was covered in blood and he appeared to have none on him, Glover could not provide an explanation and refused to answer any more questions, according to his arrest citation.

Williams was treated at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, according to court records. He has since been released from the hospital, according to WKYT, the Herald-Leader’s reporting partner.

Before Monday’s incident, Glover was charged in June with burglary and accused of stealing items from a a Somerset nursing home, according to court documents. In that case, he was also accused of showering, sleeping and watching TV in one of the rooms of the nursing home before being found, according to his arrest citation.

In 2016, Glover was charged with burglary after a woman called police saying a man was walking around her property and possibly trying to get inside her house, according to court records. When officers arrived, they reportedly found Glover inside a small building at the back of the property, according to his arrest record from that incident.

When officer’s asked him what he was doing there, he told them that “it seemed like a good idea and the building looked interesting to him,” according to court records.

Glover is being held in the Pulaski County jail.

This story was originally published September 26, 2018 at 11:09 PM.