Fourth Person Charged in Pulaski County Homicide

August 19, 2026 WJRS Staff WJRS News

A fourth person has been charged in connection with the August 12th shooting death of a Pulaski County woman.

Sheriff Bobby Jones says Sherri Mitko was found dead inside her home on Lower Line Creek Road. She had suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

Detective Jay Picard charged a teenage boy Wednesday with complicity to commit murder. Because he is a juvenile, his name was not released.

Two other teenage boys were each charged with murder on August 16th.

Twenty-year-old McCoy Chaney of Somerset was arrested the following day and charged with murder, first-degree robbery and first-degree burglary. Chaney remains in the Pulaski County Detention Center under a one-point-five-million-dollar bond.

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