Two indicted in connection with deadly Morgantown Road shooting
Published 6:00 am Saturday, March 2, 2024
- Rhiannon Tinsley
Two people face criminal charges stemming from a fatal December shooting at a mobile home park on Morgantown Road after a grand jury indicted them Wednesday.
Quinton Hampton, 38, of Auburn, is charged in one indictment with murder and tampering with physical evidence.
A separate indictment charges Hampton with being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun and convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
Hampton is accused of killing Darrius Wickware, 30, of Bowling Green, in the early morning hours of Dec. 30 at Brookwood Mobile Home Park, 1801 Morgantown Road.
The Bowling Green Police Department arrested Hampton two days later at an address on Memphis Junction Road.
The Warren County grand jury also indicted Rhiannon Mechel Tinsley, 29, on a count of first-degree hindering prosecution/apprehension.
Tinsley is accused in the indictment of assisting Hampton in avoiding arrest while he was wanted by BGPD.
Hampton, who is in Warren County Regional Jail under a $750,000 cash bond, is due to appear Monday before Warren Circuit Judge J.B. Hines for arraignment.
City police were dispatched to Brookwood shortly before 3 a.m. on Dec. 30 in response to a report of shots fired.
As officers traveled there, they learned that a car with three women was on the way to TriStar Greenview Regional Hospital with Wickware, who was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Police interviewed multiple witnesses who reported seeing Hampton and Wickware in a physical altercation with one another just outside a trailer at the mobile home park.
BGPD Detective Jess Parry testified during a January preliminary hearing in Warren District Court that multiple witnesses told police they saw Hampton open his jacket and then heard two gunshots as Wickware ran into the trailer.
Investigators viewed video surveillance footage from the area near the site of the shooting enabling them to identify Hampton’s vehicle and locate it outside his home in Auburn.
An arrest warrant for Hampton was obtained Dec. 30.
Before BGPD found Hampton, deputies from the Logan County Sheriff’s Office stopped his vehicle, only to find that Hampton was not in it.
City police arrested Hampton at a home on Memphis Junction Road with assistance from Kentucky State Police and the Bowling Green-Warren County Drug Task Force.
Multiple people were found in the residence and police seized a rifle from the scene.
Parry testified in January that Hampton gave a statement to police after being placed in custody.
“(Hampton) denied being the person that pulled the trigger,” Parry said. “He did advise he was there at the time of the incident and was in a physical altercation.”
An arrest warrant for Tinsley is active and her bond has been set at $15,000 cash, court records show.