UPDATE: Coroner ID’s Victims in Rowan Co. Shooting, Fire

MOREHEAD, Ky. (WTVQ) – The Rowan Co. Coroner has released the identification of three people who died in Morehead after a man barricaded himself in a home and injured a deputy while exchanging gunfire with law enforcement.  Soon afterwards, the home he and the two others were in erupted into flames.  The bodies were recovered after the home burned down.

The coroner says the victims are Garry Morrison, 51, his mother Anna Morrison, 71, and Latoya Cooper, 32

All three suffered gunshot wounds and were burned in the fire, says the coroner.

Detectives continue to investigate but the sheriff says drug usage was likely involved.  He says his deputies have a history of responding to drug-related calls at that address.

Troopers say the deputy who was shot is Baker Hollis and that he was released from the hospital on Sunday.

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8:50 a.m.

Three Dead in Rowan Co. After Shooting, House Fire

Three people are dead, a deputy wounded, and a home burned to the ground in Rowan County.

The Sheriff says a man called in to his office just after two Sunday afternoon, saying he was at a home off Island Fork Road in Morehead where he had just shot and killed his girlfriend.

When deputies and State Police showed up at the home, they say they tried to get inside to do a welfare check, and that’s when the man opened fire on them, hitting a Sheriff’s deputy in the hand.

Law enforcement fired back, but say they don’t believe they hit the suspect.  Then, as they were pulling the wounded deputy to safety, State Police say the home erupted in flames.

The Sheriff says firefighters had to stay back because they weren’t sure if the shooter was still alive and might start firing again.

The Sheriff says three bodies were discovered in the burned home.  The victims have not been identified.

The deputy who was shot was treated and released from the hospital.