Overview
- Authorities say a Kentucky State Police helicopter searching for a missing 11-year-old near Mayslick on Nov. 3 was hit by repeated laser strikes and targeted by gunfire.
- The tactical flight officer was hospitalized with a possible eye injury attributed to the laser, according to police and court records.
- Jason McKee, 49, and Donald Boone, 55, were arrested at a residence on US 62 and booked into the Mason County Detention Center.
- McKee faces wanton endangerment counts, a charge tied to discharging a firearm, and laser/vision interference; Boone is charged with first-degree wanton endangerment of a police officer.
- Both men pleaded not guilty at arraignment, with bond set at $100,000 cash for McKee and $50,000 cash for Boone, and investigators say McKee told them he thought the aircraft was a drone and admitted firing a .380 handgun.