Heroic final act of Kentucky mom, 44, killed at her son's pool party by mass shooter

A heroic Kentucky mom utilized her last moments to prevention her teen girl from a wide shooter's rampage aft he opened occurrence during her son's 21st day party.

Melissa Parrett, 44, died while protecting girl Chloe Parrett, 19, during nan incident connected Saturday.

Her begetter Bruce Parrett, who was not coming astatine nan clip of nan shooting, told WKYT he is 'forever grateful' her mom tried to prevention her.

The family were celebrating Brendan Parrett's day pinch a excavation statement astatine their Florence location erstwhile Chase Garvey, 21, showed up unannounced and began gunning down guests.

Seven group were changeable successful total, 4 of whom were fatally wounded, earlier Garvey fled and turned nan weapon connected himself.

Police person not stated a motive, but among his victims is Delaney Eary, 19, who is believed to beryllium Garvey's ex-girlfriend.

Eary died on pinch friends Shane Miller, 20, and Hayden Rybicki, 20. 

Paerett was remembered arsenic an 'amazing and dedicated mom' by loved ones.

Among those injured were Chloe and her friends Konnor Markesbery and Claire Smith. Smith is successful nan ICU station room but expected to recover, a fundraiser has been group up to thief pinch costs.

Markesbury is besides expected to make a beingness recovery, pinch donations besides being requested.

Bruce Parrett said his girl is 'fighting for her life' successful a GoFundMe. He described nan infinitesimal he received nan heart-stopping telephone astatine astir 3am.

'I parked astatine nan apical of nan thoroughfare and ran down to nan house, wherever I saw each of nan carnage of a segment nary quality being should ever person to witnesser successful their life,' said.

Police were called to nan 2600 artifact of Ridgecrest Drive successful nan early hours of Saturday morning.

 On arrival, they recovered 4 group dormant and 3 different critically injured victims who were taken to nan ICU astatine a adjacent hospital. 

Garvey fled nan segment successful his ain conveyance earlier he crashed, pinch officers uncovering him dormant of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

During a property convention Saturday afternoon, Florence Police Chief Jeff Mallery said Garvey had not been invited to nan statement but had showed up.

Mallery added that he was known to nan partygoers, and that their first investigation had revealed that Garvey had been acting alone.

Images connected his societal media show him clutching a sniper rifle, a manus weapon and a shotgun.

Garvey was known to constabulary earlier nan shooting connected Saturday, having been arrested and charged successful 2021 for nan rape of a 13-year-old girl.

In April of past year, he was sentenced to 5 years of probation aft pleading blameworthy to unlawful transaction pinch a insignificant successful nan 2nd degree.

According to a study astatine nan clip by Fox19, nan unfortunate told constabulary she had been messaging Garvey connected Snapchat weeks earlier nan incident.

The study says that nan woman had told Garvey she was 13, and that they met astatine an flat analyzable wrong his vehicle.

The woman told constabulary that she said to Garvey that 'she didn't want to do thing sexual' erstwhile Garvey held her hands down and raped her.

Garvey, past 18, admitted successful a constabulary question and reply to having activity pinch nan woman and said nan woman had performed oral activity connected him prior.

Police successful Florence person said that nan investigation into nan wide shooting connected Saturday is still nether investigation.

Mallery continued: 'We've ne'er dealt pinch this before. I cognize it's going connected passim nan nation, but this is nan first clip that we've had a wide shooting successful Florence.

'It is very emotional. And my emotions are for nan victims, their families, nan officers that responded and everybody that was touched by this situation.'