Princeton Man Indicted For Murder Of Girlfriend

Tommy Dunning/Caldwell County Jail mugshot

A Princeton man has been indicted in the fatal shooting of his girlfriend in November.

During the January 10 session, the Caldwell County Grand Jury returned a true bill for 39-year old Tommy William Dunning charging him with murder in the death of Ursula Hamlet.

Kentucky State Police reported Dunning shot Hamlet at a home on Coleman Crider Road during some kind of altercation on November 22, 2021. Detectives said they found Hamlet in the home with a single gunshot wound to her neck. She was pronounced dead at the scene by Caldwell County Coroner Dewayne Trafford.

Dunning remains lodged in the Caldwell County Jail on a $1 million cash bond.