Crime

Police: Man shot brother in the head in Lexington. Victim has life-threatening injuries.

Lexington police say a man shot his older brother at a home on Atiya Place on Tuesday night.

Cameren Fisher, 25, was arrested at his home on Alexandria Drive early Wednesday and was charged with first-degree assault in connection to an alleged shooting on Tuesday, a police press release stated.

Police told WKYT, the Herald-Leader’s reporting partner, that Fisher allegedly pulled up in a car, shot his brother in the head and drove off.

The first officer on the scene found the 30-year-old victim outside and began performing CPR, the release stated. Paramedics took the man to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.

According to police, witnesses identified Fisher as the shooter. He’s currently lodged at the Fayette County Detention Center.

This story was originally published June 17, 2020 at 9:56 AM.

Rick Childress
Lexington Herald-Leader
Rick Childress covers Eastern Kentucky for the Herald-Leader. The Lexington native and University of Kentucky graduate first joined the paper in 2016 as an agate desk clerk in the sports section and in 2020 covered higher education during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. He spent much of 2021 covering news and sports for the Klamath Falls Herald and News in rural southern Oregon before returning to Kentucky in 2022.
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