The two Kentucky State Police (KSP) troopers at the center of an internal investigation following their response to one of the troopers shooting a gun into an apartment beneath them have returned to work.

KSP Troopers Dustin Gross and Landon Terry have been removed from administrative leave and returned to work during their field-training phase, according to KSP Trooper Matt Sudduth.

Both Gross and Terry graduated from the police academy on Oct. 25 and were assigned to Post 5, which covers Oldham County. After graduation, a training officer supervises each trooper for 12 weeks during the field-training phase.

Last month, on Nov. 16, a bullet came through the ceiling of an apartment at Oldham Oaks in La Grange. William Todd, one of the residents, called 911 shortly after 6 p.m. and told dispatchers three KSP troopers live above him and none of them were answering the door.

When the bullet came through the ceiling of the apartment, Ke’liam, Sa’rinity and Kay’leah Todd, William and KeeKee Todd’s children, were all home. Grandmother Beverly Todd was home watching the children at the time.

The bullet came through the living room of the apartment, just a few inches away from where the two girls were at the time, one sitting on the couch and the other standing behind the couch. The bullet itself didn’t fully enter the apartment and no one was injured.

KSP Sergeant Josh Lawson previously told the Era KSP had launched an investigation “that is primarily going to focus on our troopers actions or their lack of actions following the accidental discharge of their personal weapon.”

“It seems that there was a lack of response to check on the occupants below them,” Lawson added.

The Oldham County Sheriff’s Office and the La Grange Police Department responded to the incident Nov. 16.

According to the police report, Terry asked the Oldham County Sheriff deputy if he was there about the gunshot, and he responded “absolutely.” He then told the deputy that they had just moved in and had taken the magazine of out of the rifle.

“They thought it was empty and the trigger was pulled and the rifle went off because there was a round in the chamber,” according to the police report.

It’s unclear from the report which of the two men shot the gun.

“I told them they need to get out in front of it and contact their sergeants as soon as possible. Their response was, ‘we are getting ready to go out,’” the deputy wrote in the run report.

“Once again, I told the two they needed to contact their supervisors and let them know what had happened, before this took on a life of its own and the media found out or someone else tells KSP about it before they did,” the deputy wrote.

“Neither of the two acted like they were going to contact their supervisor,” the deputy added.

A KSP sergeant arrived on scene later that night to interview the troopers, according to the police report.

Sudduth, who recently assumed the role of public affairs officer for KSP Post 5, told the Era the two went back to work but was unable to share any updates regarding the state police’s internal investigation. He said police headquarters in Frankfort was handling the internal investigation.

Multiple messages left with Lawson for comment and update about the investigation went unanswered at the time of press.

Sudduth said the internal investigation is likely stalled because state police is currently without a commissioner.

Former KSP Commissioner Rick Sanders recently took a new job as chief of the Jeffersontown Police Department, according to the Courier Journal. Sanders was appointed commissioner of the state police in 2016 by former Gov. Matt Bevin.

Sudduth said with Democrat Andy Beshear will likely be appointing a new commissioner who will then be responsible for overseeing the investigation.

“The commissioner will have to be involved in that in some capacity and that’s what’s holding it up,” he said.

The Era spoke with William, KeeKee and Beverly Todd at their apartment Nov. 18.

William Todd said he saw two women leave the apartment Nov. 16 after he had knocked on the door and then return 15 minutes later with pizza.

“They were just up there eating pizza like nothing had ever happened,” he said.

It wasn’t until the next day, Nov. 17, the two troopers came down to their apartment to apologize and check on the family.

“They’re trained to know what to do with these guns and it just shouldn’t have happened,” Beverly Todd told the Era.