coming up on Mountain News at 6 a Clay County man remains in jail after being accused of pointing a gun at a student and officials with one Eastern Kentucky Fiscal Court are pushing for additional funding to help with their water and sewer systems and we're seeing temperatures right now in the mid to uper 80s now the question is is when is this cold front finally going to push through details in a few minutes dedicated to Eastern and Southern Kentucky this is WMT Mountain News at [Music] 6 a Southeastern Kentucky man is accused of holding a high school student at gunpoint and threatening him it happened Wednesday morning at Clay County High School Christopher Kier is accused of getting the student to get into his truck than holding him at gunpoint wmt's Phil Pendleton has the story from Manchester 31-year-old Christopher CER has been held here at the Klay County jail since his arrest yesterday according to a police citation he unlawfully went to Klay County High School was able to get a student to get into his truck with him where he was held at gunpoint and threatened Clay County School leaders say a voluntary staff member under false pretenses gained access to the parking lot with an alleged weapon the sign states that access to the high school is not allowed from 8:30 to 2:30 but police say CER pointed the gun at the student's head after the student got into his truck around 11:00 Wednesday morning Coler is accused of telling the student that he was going to kill him and that he was making a video of it a deputy sheriff arrested CER Thursday and charged him with criminal trespassing wanting endangerment terroristic threatening and unlawful possession of a weapon on school property call your remains in jail on a $50,000 cash only Bond his attorney has filed a motion to lower that to 10% of that so that he could be able to get out of jail return to work and to be with his family in Klay County Phil Pendleton now back to you we also asked if coyer would like to talk to us from jail but he declined a former Eastern kentu Kentucky prosecutor has been sentenced to prison former Perry County Commonwealth Attorney Scott Blair was sentenced to 4 and a half years for committing honest service wire fraud Blair pleaded guilty earlier this year in the plea agreement it says between April 2020 and March of this year he intentionally devised a scheme to deprive those in Perry County of his honest service through bribery a Morgan County man is behind bars after he reportedly uploaded sexually explicit images of Children online Troopers with kp's electronic crimes Branch arrested John Simone on charges related to a child sexual abuse material investigation yesterday he is currently charged with 20 counts of possession of matter portraying a minor under the age of 12 in a sexual performance he was taken to the Rowan County Detention Center Police in Campbell County Tennessee have arrested a suspect in regards to a shooting Sheriff deputies were called to Chapman Crest Road in lafallet yesterday police say they made contact with a victim who stated a man had reportedly shot him in their investigation police determined there had been a verbal altercation with neighbors when Jesse Phillip comr shot the victim with a pellet gun police found comr and took him to the Campbell County jail this morning a man gets lured to a Wayne County home where police say he was held against his will and accused of stealing James lions and riddle Joe have been arrested on multiple felony charges including robbery assault and unlawful imprisonment police say the crime happened last month and the two gave the victim bandages following the assault and let him go it took about two weeks to find Joe both men are in the Wayne County Detention Center 12 people have been arrested in a drug bust in Harland County it happened yesterday when police conducted a Roundup taking the suspects into custody on warrants stemming from drug trafficking investigations April York Olivia Evans Jessica Dixon Teddy ree Maurice Long Randy Hammond Megan Goodwin Juanita couch Wendy Varner Jordan Marshall Jimmy Holland and Kirsten hanky were all charged with trafficking in a controlled substance one person has been arrested accused of stealing equipment and copper from two Logan County West Virginia businesses West Virginia State Police say about 157,000 in equipment was taken from Arch resources including a welder a trailer and an excavator they also say around $100,000 of copper was stolen from Services investigators combined through evidence including video which led them to the arrest of Jeremy weekly in a separate case in Logan County two people accused of stealing from a mine supply store have been arrested at the end of August State Police say Michael Brock and Stephanie Prince broke into the business and stole copper and Transformers valued around $35,000 both were arrested well we had temperatures today in the mid to Upper 80s and now we're starting to cool off a little bit the cloud cover starting to pick up as well as that's the precursor to the rain chances picking up throughout the evening and overnight hours right now we're at 84 in Hazard 83 is the current temperature in Jackson 84 in Manchester Somerset monacello 86° look at Ashland oh so close to 90 89 is the current temperature live Pinpoint Doppler Radar right now showing a little bit of a stray shower to just to the north and west of Eastern Kentucky the big story though is that line east of Cincinnati through Louisville this is our weather maker as we go throughout the evening and overnight hours next 12 hours as temperatures staying in the low to mid 70s by 11:00 mid 60s by 5:00 a.m. 61 by the 7:00 hour when you wake up in the morning look at those temperatures mid to Upper 50s I'll have your complete First Alert forecast coming up in a few minutes Amelia Eric thank you schools throughout Kentucky are required to have a school resource officer since house Bell 63 was signed the number of officers has increased however several schools are still operating without them wmt's RJ Johnson shares what one SRO wants to see change for Tim Engle he never thought about becoming a school resource officer I had been retired about 8 years and the superintendent at that time uh called me there was a lot of stuff going on with schools and asked me if I would be interested in it my wife and I talked about it and we ended up praying about it and decided that I needed to do it for some reason and I've been here ever since Engle now walks the Halls at Hazard Middle School where he not only keeps kids safe but is there for the good and the bad I try to do that as do my other police officer buddies that do this it's it it could be lifechanging for a child so you're a lot more than just a cop but is it the same for schools throughout the Commonwealth according to the annual school safety risk assessment report during the 2023 24 school year 467 schools throughout the state reported not having an assigned SRO that is more than 35% of all schools hazard's very blessed the a the police officer uh ratio here uh is pretty minimal but the city police allow us to take care of these schools as does the sheriff's office here in Purry County Engel says with other school districts not being as fortunate he says a lot needs to be done to address the issue the funding the training that all goes along with this uh it's that's a hard test to and a lot of police officers a lot of young police officers coming out of the academy they want to work the road they don't want to be stuck in a school he says he wants to see more retired officers back in the schools to be there for those students I think you need an older law enforcement agency officer at the school uh because 90 probably 98% of my stuff that I deal with here at school is more of about a a dad a grandfather it's not really law enforcement related in Hazard RJ Johnson W ymt Mountain news Engles says retired officers already have proper training needed to fulfill the needs however he says they are always looking for ways to improve their trainings throughout the year one Pike County Community is mourning the loss of a volunteer firefighter darl hton died on Wednesday he had been with the belfree volunteer fire department since his teen years serving the department for approximately a decade and a half the belfree fire chief says Helton had taken some time off but came back in the later part of 2022 funeral arrangements have not been made at this time for Helton he was 49 years old the Center for Rural Development in Somerset is hosting a concert and special tribute for a woman who died last month following her 4-year battle with cancer Raina Simpson was diagnosed with colon cancer back in 2020 the benefit concert and tribute to Simpson will be tomorrow evening at 7 Leland a contemporary Christian band will perform at the concert Raina Simpson was 37 years old all right weather headlines for tonight first of all rain chances will increase as we go throughout the evening and overnight hours simply put a beautiful fall-like weekend and mid 80s will creep back into the forecast details in a few minutes and last weekend's UK football game was hit by lightning delays and traffic troubles how fans were affected and what is expected for tomorrow's home game [Music]