STATE POLICE SAY PEDESTRIAN KILLED IN MADISONVILLE

            KENTUCKY STATE POLICE SAY ONE PEDESTRIAN DIED AND ANOTHER WAS INJURED WHEN THE DRIVER OF A CAR RAN OFF WEST NOEL AVENUE IN MADISONVILLE ONTO A SIDEWALK AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED LATE LAST NIGHT AND HIT THE WOMEN.

            TROOPER NICK RICE SAYS THE WRECK OCCURRED AROUND 11:45 THURSDAY NIGHT AND CLAIMED THE LIFE OF 30 YEAR-OLD LACHELLE WILLIAMS OF MADISONVILLE AND SENT 39 YEAR-OLD THOMASA WALLACE OF MADISONVILLE TO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER.  THE CAR WAS BEING DRIVEN BY 20 YEAR-OLD ERIC HENDRIX OF MADISONVILLE, WHO LOST CONTROL OF HIS MERCURY SABLE AND HIT THE WOMEN.  HIS CAR THEN RAN INTO A BUILDING AND A UTILITY POLE AT WEST NOEL AND PARK ROW.  HENDRIX AND THREE PASSENGER THEN RAN AWAY FROM THE SCENE ON FOOT, WITH HENDRIX TURNING HIMSELF IN LATER AT THE MADISONVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT.  TWO OTHER PASSENGERS CAME BACK TO THE SCENE WITH THE THIRD LATER FOUND AT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER.

            TROOPER RICE SAYS HENDRIX WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH MURDER, FELONY ASSAULT, DUI-SECOND OFFENSE AND OTHER CHARGES.