Man Charged in Two Kentucky Shooting Deaths

Saturday, February 14, 2004

(3:35 PM ET)

By Ellen R. Stapleton

Associated Press Writer

Hutchinson made doomsday proclamations, calling the standoff ``Armageddon'' and rambling about the CIA and a conspiracy. ``We're going against the evil alien clones,'' the Herald-Leader reported Hutchinson as saying in its Saturday editions. ``I started with my wife.''

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- AP
A suspected gunman who told a reporter he was battling ``alien clones'' during a 6 1/2-hour standoff at his home was charged Saturday in the deaths of a female firefighter and another woman.

Patrick Hutchinson, 45, surrendered Friday night, hours after fire and police crews converged on his house in southeast Lexington following a report that a woman had been shot.

At one point during the standoff, a reporter from the Lexington Herald-Leader accidentally called Hutchinson while trying to reach his neighbors, officials said. An editor alerted police, who asked the reporter to end the call.

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