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September 17, 2009

By RONNIE ELLIS and LISA SIMPSON STRANGE The Glasgow Daily Times Thu Sep 17, 2009, 08:41 PM CDT

FRANKFORT — Steve Nunn, who faces murder charges in the death of his former fiancée, was transferred Thursday afternoon from the Hart County to the Lexington/Fayette County Urban Government Division of Community Corrections.

“He was transferred today,” said Jennifer Miller, public affairs officer for the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department. “We did bring him back to Fayette County.”

Hart County Jailer Keith Riordan told the Glasgow Daily Times that Nunn was picked up by Fayette County officials Thursday around 4:30 p.m. CDT.

Nunn has been in custody since last Friday following the shooting death in Lexington of his former fiancée, Amanda Ross. On Monday, Fayette County authorities charged Nunn with murder.

Ross' funeral was held Wednesday in downtown Lexington just blocks from her home where she was shot.

Ross was found shot last Friday morning around 6:30 a.m. EDT outside her downtown Lexington townhouse and was pronounced dead shortly afterward at the University of Kentucky Hospital.

Authorities began searching for Nunn, who in March was placed under a domestic violence order after Ross accused him of striking her in her home.

Members of the Barren County Sheriff’s Department and Kentucky State Troopers located Nunn a few hours later in the Hart County cemetery where Nunn’s parents, former Gov. Louie B. Nunn and Beula Nunn, are buried. He had cuts his wrists and brandished a gun, discharging it at one point without hitting himself or officers, according to Barren County Sheriff Chris Eaton.

Nunn was transported to the Bowling Green Medical Center and charged with six counts of wanton endangerment for brandishing the gun at the cemetery. On Monday, he was transferred to the Hart County jail on those charges and later that night was charged with murder.

He was scheduled for arraignment in Hart County next Monday. It was not known by press time Thursday when Nunn would be arraigned in Fayette County on the murder charges.

RONNIE ELLIS writes for CNHI News Service and is based in Frankfort. Reach him at rellis@cnhi.com. LISA SIMPSON STRANGE writes for the Glasgow Daily Times. Reach her at lsstrange@glasgowdailytimes.com.

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