LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Authorities have identified a woman who was shot to death in Louisville's Taylor Berry neighborhood.
According to the Jefferson County Coroner's Office, that woman has been identified as 63-year-old Paulette M. Ray, a Louisville resident.
Police were called to the 1400 block of Sale Avenue, near the intersection with Lester Avenue, just after midnight on Sunday, Jan. 8, according to Aaron Ellis, a spokesman with the Louisville Metro Police Department.
When officers arrived, they found the woman identified by the coroner's office as Ray. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Photos given to WDRB News by a supervisor at the Laundry Connection show an SUV smashed into the building, knocking out a door and a window. That SUV was seen by Louisville Metro Police officers leaving the area of Sale Avenue and Lester Avenue just after midnight on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023 after a shooting that left a 63-year-old woman dead. Louisville Police said it's not known whether the vehicle and its driver are related to the shooting.
Police are searching for suspects. Ellis said Monday that officers "noticed a vehicle that was seen leaving the area at the same time" and "attempted to stop the vehicle," which fled and hit a nearby building in the 1300 block of Southgate Avenue.Â
Ellis said the driver of the vehicle fled on foot, but it not known whether the vehicle and its driver are related to the shooting.
The building the vehicle hit is a laundromat called Laundry Connection. Photos given to WDRB News by a supervisor at the laundromat show an SUV smashed into the building, knocking out a door and a window.
No one inside the business was hurt and it was still open Monday evening.
Anyone with information is asked to call the LMPD crime tipline at 502-574-LMPD (5673) or send an anonymous tips through the Crime Tip Portal.
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