Lexington police are releasing more details about an officer-involved shooting.

44-year-old Warren Douglas Rayburn is still at UK hospital after being shot several times, early Monday morning.

At a press conference on Wednesday morning, police talked about the chain of events that led to the shooting.

Police say they were called to a home on Arbor Station Road for a domestic dispute at around 4:00 a.m. They say the officers left the home but stayed in the area because they thought the situation might flare back up.

Police say sometime later, Rayburn's girlfriend exited the house and Rayburn followed her with an assault rifle.

Police say they asked Rayburn to drop the weapon but instead, he turned towards them and raised the gun, pointing it in their direction.

That's when police say Officer Matthew Jordan shot Rayburn several times when he didn't put the weapon down.

Rayburn had to undergo surgery and is listed in serious condition. Family members tell us he is still unresponsive.

At the press conference on Wednesday morning, one of Rayburn's family members got in and grilled police about the events of that night.

George Hopper, his former father-in-law, is Rayburn's employer at the business The Happy Glass Man. He says he's never known Doug Rayburn to be a violent man. He says Rayburn is a gun collector, but he was surprised to find out one of those guns was pointed in the direction of an officer.

Hopper says Doug Rayburn is deaf in one ear, and may not have heard the officers tell him to put the gun down.

He says he wanted to be at today's conference to ask officers why his former son-in-law was shot five times.

Police tell us they do not have an exact number of how many times Doug Rayburn was shot just yet. They do say it was multiple times, and they did what was needed to stop him from being a threat to them. Rayburn's gun was loaded with a 30 round magazine. 

This is from an incident that happened in Lexington, Ky.  The news that the subject who was shot is allegedly deaf in one ear was just released today.  Obviously, not all of the facts are out in the open yet, but there basically seems to really be no disputing the fact that he WAS in possession of a gun, and an officer felt threatened enough to shoot the subject.

About a month ago, I posted a blog about how to handle yourself in a situation involving law enforcement (Law Enforcement and the Deaf-A Primer).  This story here is a sad reminder of what can happen not only in domestic violence situations, but also situations where someone involved is (or may be in this case) deaf.  I'm not going to turn this into a debate as to whether or not the police were justified in shooting the individual, but I do want people to be aware, when officers respond to a known domestic violence situation or a situation that has the potential to be violent, it is best to comply with the officer's commands.  In this situation, they had their lights flashing (that fact was reported in another article released on the day of the shooting), so it should have been obvious to the gentleman that it was the police, especially since they had been there shortly before. I am sure, had he simply put his gun down and his hands in the air, he would not be in the hospital fighting for his life right now

Sad situation.