Video shows police stopping a probable house explosion in NKY

INDEPENDENCE, Ky. (WXIX) – New video shows firsthand how police officers prevent a likely explosion at a Northern Kentucky home.

Video from January 7 shows an Independence police officer pulling a can of gasoline out of a hot kitchen stove in a woman’s home.

According to court documents and video recordings, the gasoline can was placed in the oven by 31-year-old Joshua Harmon.

According to court documents, police were called to the northern Kentucky home by a woman who reported an attack by Harmon.

During the emergency call, dispatchers could hear gunshots.

When officers entered the house, they found that the glass in the back door was broken, as the video shows.

“We can get in through that rear sliding door,” an officer says in the video. “He broke all the glass.”

Meanwhile, police officers who are in front of the house enter the building.

The video captures the woman screaming as Harmon tries to force his way into her master bedroom, where she and her three children are.

The officers quickly arrest the 31-year-old, but then the woman is heard telling the police that Harmon had placed a gasoline can in the kitchen oven.

An officer fetches the gasoline canister, which hisses out of the heater.

Harmon was taken to jail and pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of attempted murder, three counts of reckless endangerment, two counts of assault and one count of attempted arson.

Harmon will appear in court again on September 23 for his final sentence.

Kenton County District Attorney Rob Sanders recommends a 20-year prison sentence.

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