WALTON, Ky. — Two Boone County deputies will soon be discharged from the hospital after they were shot while serving a felony warrant in Walton Thursday night.

The sheriff's office said deputies went to 39-year-old Justin Chapman's apartment at Towne Creek Crossing at around 9:20 p.m. Thursday to serve a warrant regarding overdue child support. After around 30 minutes, deputies breached Chapman's door and began to enter when Major Philip Ridgell said they were met with "heavy gunfire."

Two deputies were shot and taken to UC Medical Center. Ridgell said both had positive prognoses and are expected to be discharged "sooner or later." Officials later learned Chapman, who had barricaded himself inside the home, had died by self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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