Paramedic Charged With Murder In Highway Death
FORDSVILLE, Ky. — A western Kentucky paramedic has been charged with murder and leaving the scene of an accident.
Kentucky State Police said Thursday theyve arrested 29-year-old Brian Bellamy in the death last Friday of 33-year-old Antone Wilkins of Fordsville.
Police said Wilkins was killed after being hit by Bellamys vehicle on Kentucky 54 north of Fordsville in Ohio County.
Bellamy was being held at the Ohio County jail on $100,000 bond.
Its unclear whether Bellamy is represented by a lawyer.
Police said Bellamy is a paramedic in Hopkinsville, but a county dispatcher there says Bellamy works for a private ambulance company. No one answered the companys phone Thursday night.