KY Woman Killed By Police During Shelbyville Welfare Check

We have received an unconfirmed photo of Ashleigh Bertucci, the Kentucky woman shot dead in her vehicle by an officer with the Shelbyville Police Department Monday night.

The 31 year old’s fatal shooting happened sometime after 10 p.m. in the 3000 block of Mary Crest Drive, off St. Regis Drive near exit 35 of I-64, a residential area.

Police were going to a home to perform a welfare check. That is when officers are called to a location to see if a person is okay. As part of that welfare check, they were also looking for a particular car in the area, according to trooper Bernie Napier, a KSP spokesman. source

Napier said when officers got to the house, they found the person inside the home was okay. But they also found the car.

A Shelbyville police officer shot a woman who was in the car. She has been identified as Ashleigh Bertucci, of Louisville. Bertucci was taken to Jewish Hospital Shelbyville but later died.

KSP could not tell us if Bertucci was armed, or what led up to the shooting, but they did call her a suspect.

No one else was injured in the shooting. The officer involved has yet to be named.

Kentucky State Police are investigating.

According to her unconfirmed Facebook page, Bertucci is the mother to two young sons.

The vehicle involved in the shooting matches a car shown on Bertucci’s Facebook page.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends at this difficult time.