Printer, Kentucky
Unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States
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Printer is an unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
The community is named after John Printer Meade, a pioneer citizen.[2]
The community is located on Kentucky Route 122 at the western terminus of Kentucky Route 2030.
1981 shooting
On October 16, 1981, a retired 70 year-old miner named William Okie Bevins went into an auto parts store with a .30 caliber automatic, and shot 8 men with 5 dying being including the store owner Roger Hatfield,[3] and 3 being injured. He had an argument with Roger Click before the shooting.[4] He was previously convicted of a murder dating back to 1930. After the shooting he was sent an undisclosed location.[5] He was soon sentenced to death.[6]
