A double homicide occurred in a trailer on Fred Nash Lane just outside Corbin, Kentucky, in the early hours of Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Authorities were called about a possible shooting around 2:30 a.m.; Whitley County’s coroner pronounced 28-year-old Joshua C. Wernicke of Keavy and 47-year-old resident Denver Nicely dead at 3:15 a.m. from multiple gunshot wounds. The deaths were ruled homicides and the Kentucky State Police opened an intensive investigation.

Investigators developed a suspect, 47-year-old Paul E. Parsons of Corbin. Parsons was initially arrested by Corbin police that morning on unrelated charges of alcohol intoxication and possession of marijuana. Later the same day Kentucky State Police charged Parsons with two counts of murder and one count of first-degree burglary in connection with the killings; he was lodged in the Whitley County Detention Center.

If anyone has information about the events at the Fred Nash Lane residence on the night of June 6–7, 2017, please share what is known.