Attorney General Coleman Announces 20-Year Sentence for Jessamine County Shooting

FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 31, 2024) – Attorney General Russell Coleman announced today that action by the Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Unit resulted in the sentencing of Alfredo Delgado, 31, of Frankfort, for shooting a Nicholasville hotel clerk in 2022.

On July 26, 2024, the Jessamine Circuit Court sentenced Delgado to 20 years in prison. A jury had previously found Delgado guilty of one count of Assault First Degree (Class B Felony) and recommended the 20-year sentence. Delgado must serve at least 85% of the time to be parole eligible.

In 2022, Delgado confronted the hotel clerk at Home Place Inn in Nicholasville, demanding she allow him access to a guest room. After she refused, Delgado shot the victim in the hand, head and shoulder. The victim required multiple surgeries and eventually lost a finger.  Following the assault, Delgado fled to New York where he was apprehended before being transported back to Kentucky for prosecution.

“This type of violence is unacceptable in our Commonwealth. I’m proud of the zealous collaboration among prosecutors and law enforcement from Nicholasville to New York that put this violent criminal behind bars,” said Attorney General Coleman.

The Nicholasville Police Department investigated the case. Deputy Executive Director of the Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Unit Ramsey Dallam and Assistant Attorney General Lindsey Studebaker prosecuted the case on behalf of the Commonwealth. Erica Paske with the Attorney General’s Office of Victim Advocacy worked with the victim.