On Friday, June 21, 2024, deputies from the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office went to a home on Pleasureville Road in Pleasureville, Kentucky, after a report of a shooting. They found two women with gunshot wounds. Fifty-six-year-old Heather Beth Simmons, known as Beth, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her daughter, Emily Hunt, was critically injured and taken to a Louisville hospital, where she died the following Sunday afternoon.

Investigators quickly focused on a family member. Thirty-two-year-old Michael Hunt, Emily’s husband and Beth’s son-in-law, was arrested and taken to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office for questioning. Court documents say that after being read his Miranda rights Hunt admitted to shooting both women in the head and said he had a job to take both females out. He was charged with murder; the charge was later listed as two counts of murder after Emily’s death. He is being held at the Shelby County Detention Center without bond.

The rural community is mourning the loss of a mother and daughter who were active locally. If anyone has information about the killings or knew the victims, please share what you know with investigators.