A 73-year-old Louisville man, Thomas Talley, faces a first-degree wanton endangerment charge after police alleged that shots fired from his Newburg home struck a neighboring house while a woman and child were inside. The arrest citation, as reported by WHAS11, says the woman told investigators a bullet passed near her legs and another struck the iPad the child was using.
What police say happened
According to the citation, officers went to Talley’s home around 3 p.m. Thursday after a report of a robbery and shots fired. Talley told police that an unknown man and woman pushed him off his scooter and took $500. Investigators allege that afterward he retrieved a pistol and fired six or seven rounds toward the suspects’ fleeing vehicle. The shots struck the glass front of the neighboring home, the citation says.
The allegation centers on gunfire reaching an occupied home, not on a finding that Talley committed the charged offense. The account does not establish the identities of the alleged robbers or whether any legal justification applies. Talley is charged with first-degree wanton endangerment, a Class C felony, according to the reported court documents.
Self-protection law does not resolve the allegation
Kentucky’s KRS 503.060 lists circumstances in which physical force is not justified in self-protection, including when a defendant was the initial aggressor, subject to stated exceptions. That statute provides legal context, but the reported account does not establish whether its provisions—or any other justification—apply to Talley’s case.
