LOUISVILLE Ky. (WDRB) -- A man who told police he killed two sisters in self defense late last year has been charged with their murders.

According to a news release from the Kentucky State Police Post in Campbellsville, 53-year-old Ronald Evridge was arrested around 2:30 a.m. Friday and charged with two counts of murder and one count of tampering with physical evidence in connection with the shooting deaths of 24-year-old Sandy Allen and 21-year-old Heather Faulkerson on Dec. 19, 2011.

Evridge was arrested after police say he tried to run from the rear of a building in the 1400 block of La Grange Road near New Castle in Henry County. Police say an "arsenal of weapons and ammunition" were recovered from the scene and his vehicle. 

He was taken to the Oldham County Jail.

Evridge told police he shot Allen and Faulkerson in self defense after the two attacked him inside a barn on his property on 18 Mile Creek Road near Westport, Kentucky. Evridge, who suffered lacerations from an apparent knife wound, said he the women in self defense.

He was also arrested back in December for a probation violation.

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