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Wood confident Price's killer will be found
Somerset — Funeral services were held yesterday for Kevin Price, the 21-year-old Science Hill resident whose burned body was found Thanksgiving weekend, prompting a homicide investigation.
Price went missing Nov. 9 and was found by an ATV rider Nov. 28 in a remote area off Strawberry Road.
As family members and friends said their final good-byes yesterday, detectives with the Pulaski County Major Crimes Task Force continued their investigation into Price’s death.
An autopsy revealed the cause and manner of his death, but authorities aren’t releasing that information to the public at this time.
Investigators are still collecting information which they hope will lead them to Price’s killer, Pulaski County Sheriff Todd Wood said yesterday.
“We do have new information, but nothing that we can release,” he said. “We’re conducting interviews every day, and we’re following up on leads.”
Wood said some tips have come to investigators anonymously. Price’s family members are also assisting law enforcement by passing along information they hear.
“We’re concentrating on people who knew Kevin,” Wood said, adding that solving a crime involves “locking people in on where they were and what they were doing at a certain time ... and seeing if people are telling the truth.”
Wood said finding Price’s killer would take some time, especially considering the fact that investigators “had nothing to start with.”
“We’re confident as a sheriff’s office and as a task force that this will be solved, and I think people in the community are confident it will be solved,” Wood said.
“Somebody in the community has the information we need. ... The pieces will fall together, and we’ll get answers.”
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David Keller, deputy director of Appalachia HIDTA, a major funding source for the local drug task force and the reason why federal and state law enforcement officers are able to be a part of the agency, says the agency’s current situation is more serious than many people realize.
Keller says HIDTA has made a “huge investment” in the LCADTF, but that folks shouldn’t get too comfortable with the agency’s ability to obtain grant money at the federal or state level.
“This is not entitlement money. ... Our grant is performance driven, and it’s sought after by competitive forces,” Keller said. “If this agency doesn’t produce, they stand a risk of not having the task force funded. That money will go someplace else — to another county that would love to have it.” -
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