The victim of Monday night’s fatal shooting on Gardenside Drive has been identified.
According to the Daviess County Coroner’s Office, the victim is 21-year-old Stephen L. Haught, of Owensboro.
Javar Acton, 21, of Owensboro, was charged with murder. Records show that he was booked into the Daviess County Detention Center just after midnight, and his arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday morning.
According to a brief statement from OPD just before 9 p.m. Monday night, officers responded to the 900 block of Gardenside Drive in reference to a deadly shooting. Records show the incident took place at approximately 7:45 p.m.
According to a police citation obtained Tuesday morning by OT, Acton called central dispatch and he advised that he “had shot his friend.”
Upon officers’ arrival, Acton was “outside the residence with his hands in the air, and a gun on the trunk of his vehicle,” the citation shows.
The report says the victim, who was found inside the residence, sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on scene by the Daviess County Coroner’s Office.
OPD said Crime Scene Technicians from the Evidence Collection Unit and detectives from the Criminal Investigations Division both responded to the scene. Owensboro Fire Department and OMU also responded.
