Two apparently unrelated homicides at opposite ends of Jefferson County kept Louisville Metro Police investigators busy earlier Sunday morning.
The first, a shooting death, happened shortly after midnight when two women in a black Chevy pickup truck drove into the parking lot of the Second Division police headquarters near 34th Street and Bohne Avenue and flagged down an officer walking to his car.
Police found both women had been shot several times. The passenger was pronounced dead at the scene, while the driver was transported to University Hospital.
Authorities said the women were shot while in the pickup at another location and drove to the police compound at about 12:30 a.m. No other information is being released about the victims or the circumstances, Dwight Mitchell, a Louisville police spokesman, said.
About seven hours later, around 7:30 a.m., two off-duty police officers on a bike ride found the body of a man who had died of multiple gunshot wounds at Floyds Fork Park.
Mitchell said the victim appeared to have been shot at the scene sometime the night before. The body was found in knee-high grass, wedged between a row of three telephone poles lying along the ground, a few steps from the parking lot bordering the park's soccer fields.
Police were trying to identify the victim, who was described as a Hispanic man in his 20s, Mitchell said.
Crime-scene investigators stepped carefully through the tall grass before one of the officers started a yellow-handled trimmer to cut the tall grass. There, with the help of a metal detector, they found "several things" that were photographed and marked with bright yellow, said Lt. Barry Wilkerson, of Louisville Metro's Major Crimes Division.