Colorado man, 2 dogs found dead in Kentucky home. Man charged with murder
A missing Colorado man was found dead this week at a home in McCreary County, and a man was charged with murder.
Kentucky state troopers were contacted Thursday evening about the disappearance of Damian A. Poole. The Monument, Colorado, man was living in McCreary County, police said.
McCreary County sheriff’s deputies searched Poole’s home on Farm Ridge Road, in the Stearns community, and found him dead of multiple gunshot wounds. Two animals were found dead, too, police said.
Police also found Daniel A. Kearney, of Stearns, at the home. He was charged with murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and second-degree animal cruelty, according to a news release from Kentucky State Police. He was taken to the Knox County Detention Center.
Poole’s body was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Frankfort for an autopsy, and his family has been notified, according to the release.
Stearns is about 115 miles south of Lexington, near the Tennessee border.