Grace Schneider

The Courier-Journal

A 72-year-old Pleasure Ridge Park man was arrested early Monday in the fatal shooting of his stepson.

Police said George Geary admitted to shooting Michael J. Felker, 37, after the two got into a verbal altercation in the 7300 block of Sky Blue Avenue.

Felker, of the 600 block of South Park Road in Fairdale, was taken to University Hospital in downtown Louisville where he was pronounced dead of a gunshot wound at 11:03 p.m. Sunday, Jack Arnold, a deputy Jefferson County Coroner, said Monday.

Investigators are trying to piece together what triggered the arguments and other events that led up to the shooting, but for now they're describing it as a "domestic disturbance gone bad," Dwight Mitchell, a Louisville Metro Police spokesman, said.

Geary was arrested at 1 a.m. Monday and charged with the murder, Mitchell said.

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