A gunman shot a state trooper during a traffic stop, carjacked a vehicle then drove to a church where he killed two women and wounded 2 men on Sunday, Lexington police said.

A Kentucky State Police trooper is recovering after being shot during a traffic stop that preceded Sunday's deadly church shooting in rural Lexington.

Three people are dead including the suspect and three were injured after a shooting took place near an airport and church in Lexington on Sunday, July 13.

Lupe Ramirez runs Northstar Maintenance, a commercial cleaning company in Laurel County. Their building off Old Whitley Road was one of the many devastated by the deadly May 16 tornado. One security expert says active shootings in churches have gone up across the nation in the past ten years

HOUSE WAS THEN SHOT AND KILLED BY LEXINGTON POLICE. BEVERLY GUMM AND HER DAUGHTER, CHRISTINA COMBS WERE KILLED AT THE CHURCH. GILMORE’S HUSBAND, JERRY, AND CHRISTINA’S HUSBAND, RANDY, WERE BOTH CRITICALLY WOUNDED.

In the aftermath of Sunday’s tragic shooting, classmates and instructors are honoring the life of 34-year-old Christina Combs, who was set to graduate this December as a nursing student from BCTC.

WOMAN IS SPEAKING OUT TONIGHT ABOUT THE MOMENT SHE AND SEVERAL OTHER DRIVERS HELPED. THE KSP TROOPER, WHO WAS SHOT SUNDAY. WLKY’S JAMIE MAYES, SAT DOWN WITH HER THIS EVENING AND JOINS US LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM WITH MORE.

The idea that you’d be at church on a Sunday and be subjected to violence is antithetical to what our country is," Gov. Andy Beshear said.