On Wednesday, 8 p.m., 35 year old Katy McCarty and her boyfriend 50 year old Troy Wayne were arrested in connection to Cook, although they were found in White House, Tennessee, just north of Nashville, by a US Marshal many miles away from Cookeville or Burksville, where the initial debacle unfolded. On Tuesday, 1:30 p.m., the 963 Dulworth Road house a few miles south of Burkesville that Floyd Cook was thought to have been located at earlier on Sunday, burned to the ground for mysterious, and intentional, reasons. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation offered a $1,000 reward. On Sunday night, the manhunt was called off due to weather and darkness.įor three days, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Cumberland County Public Schools were closed down by the order of the Superintendent Kirk Biggerstaff.Įventually, the FBI and U.S. Many tear gas canisters were fired into the house by the authorities, but Cook could not be found. Developments Ī special team for the Kentucky State Police arrived on the scene by Saturday night and resumed their search on Sunday, when a young man called police saying he had seen Cook enter his father's (James Boles) house on 963 Dulworth Road, about a mile and a half from where Cook had wrecked his truck the day before, in Cumberland County. A month later, he failed to appear in Hardin County Circuit Court, so the Circuit Court Judge issued a bench warrant for his arrest. Cook was released on a $75,000 partially secured bond. On June 27, 2015, Floyd Ray Cook was arrested by the Hardin County Sheriff Department in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, after a traffic stop discovered that Cook possessed methamphetamines, and charged him with first degree trafficking and tampering with physical evidence, because he tried to destroy them. The outstanding warrant for Floyd Ray Cook's arrest stemmed from trafficking methamphetamines and tampering with evidence charges in Hardin County, Kentucky. Cook then proceeded to flee on foot, disappearing into the wooded foothills. Neither Cook nor Baker were wounded after the shootout. At 5:04pm, shots were reported fired, radioed in by Baker. Baker tried to stop the black Ford F-150, but Cook kept on running, turned onto a side road that dead ended, which caused Cook to crash his truck. Heading north into Kentucky on the west side of Dale Hollow Lake, Cook fled in his black F-150 truck on back roads, where he encountered Jeremy Baker, a Kentucky State Police officer, about 50 miles north of Algood. Īs Valencia walked towards the truck, Cook fired multiple shots from his handgun, hitting Officer Valencia in the abdomen portion of his bulletproof vest. On that Saturday afternoon, in Algood, Tennessee, a small town on Interstate 40 midway between Nashville and Knoxville, Ahscari Valencia, an Algood police officer, stopped to help a black Ford F-150 believing the occupants to be stranded. Īfter an August bench warrant for "failure to appear" in court over a methamphetamines charge was issued by a Circuit Judge from Hardin County, Kentucky, months went by as Floyd Cook hovered under the radar as a wanted man, until Saturday, October 24, 2015. Helicopters and thermal-heat detecting technology were used in this massive manhunt. Marshals, Kentucky State Police, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and local police officers. early Friday morning, October 30, 2015, when Floyd Cook was shot and killed in Cumberland County, Kentucky, 7 miles south of Burkesville on U.S. The Floyd Ray Cook manhunt started on Saturday afternoon, October 24, 2015, and lasted nearly a week, when 62-year-old Floyd Ray Cook of Lebanon, Kentucky shot a City of Algood, TN officer who had stopped to help Cook in Putnam County, Tennessee believing him to be a stranded motorist and ended 12:20 a.m. ( February 2016)Ĭumberland County, Kentucky, Putnam County, Tennessee Please introduce links to this page from related articles try the Find link tool for suggestions. This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it.
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