radioNOVO News for Bowling Green: August 17, 2026

RNN BOWLING GREEN 08/17/26          SADLY AND TRAGICALLY............. BULLETS WERE FLYING IN WARREN COUNTY THIS PAST WEEKEND.           A 16-YEAR-OLD BOY IS DEAD FOLLOWING A SHOOTING FRIDAY NIGHT IN BOWLING GREEN.          POLICE OFFICERS RESPONDED TO WOODBRIDGE LANE, WHERE THEY FOUND 16-YEAR-OLD BIAK HMUNG SUFFERING FROM A FATAL GUNSHOT WOUND. AUTHORITIES ARRESTED ANOTHER TEENAGER IN CONNECTION WITH THE INCIDENT, BUT DETECTIVES SAY THE SHOOTING APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN ACCIDENTAL.          THEN, SATURDAY NIGHT, A MAN WAS SHOT AND IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION.  STATE POLICE RESPONDED TO ROCKY HILL ROAD JUST AFTER 6P.M., WHERE THEY FOUND 58-YEAR-OLD JAMES KEVIN MARR WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO HIS ABDOMEN AND LEGS. MARR WAS AIRLIFTED TO A NASHVILLE HOSPITAL FOR EMERGENCY CARE.           AUTHORITIES SAY A SUSPECT IS BEING QUESTIONED AS THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.          MED CENTER HEALTH HAS OFFICIALLY OPENED ITS NEW $119 MILLION HIGH STREET TOWER.          THE FIVE-STORY FACILITY IS DEDICATED TO WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S SERVICES, FEATURING EXPANDED LABOR AND DELIVERY ROOMS, SPECIALIZED SURGICAL SUITES, AND THE REGION'S ONLY LEVEL III NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT. EXPECTANT MOTHERS GOT THEIR FIRST LOOK AT THE STATE-OF-THE-ART SPACE DURING SATURDAY'S RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY.