It should have been a quiet Sunday, sitting in the pews praying to God inside a Lexington church instead, but their faith was shattered by an unimaginable violence that rocked Macon County to its core, and it was all brought upon by 47-year-old would-be rapper Guy House, better known as “H#### Kong.”
It’s a name that a few in underground music circles may dimly recall. In 2018, House released a grimy, dark track called “Struggle Made Me.” The song, a cauldron of anger and torment, described a man fighting unseen demons, both real and imagined. “Anybody who (expletive) with me will be face down in a puddle,” he cautioned, while confessing to “conversations with demons.” It was a horrorcore fantasy come to life. Last Sunday, that reality became a chilling fact.
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It all started shortly before 11:35 A.M. near Blue Grass Airport, according to police in Kentucky, when House shot an officer of the Kentucky State Police in the course of a random traffic stop. The trooper lived through the encounter, but House had gone angry, armed, and unhinged.
What happened next was a wild, terrifying sequence of events. According to reports, the House carjacked a car and drove 16 miles to Richmond Road Baptist Church, a little country church in which long-time friends and family had met every Sunday for years. But it was more than just an arbitrary location; it was deeply personal.
House, police say, was looking for his estranged partner, the mother of his children. She wasn’t there, and his daughter, however, was hiding in the church basement, along with Beverly Gumm, 72, one of the most cherished of the congregation.
According to witnesses, House said he wanted to know where the woman was, and he asked if Balck was “taking him to find her.” When he was informed she wasn’t there, he reportedly replied, “Then someone is gonna have to die.” Then, he fired the weapon.
Beverly Gumm was shot in the head twice and died. So was 34-year-old Christina Combs, another member of the congregation. Two men attempted to intervene, but they were shot and wounded, and police, responding to the shooting, fatally shot House inside the same church he had just terrorized.
This was not just tragic to the tight-knit congregation; it was personal. Virtually everyone in the building that day knew the others. They prayed together. Raised children together. Grieved together. And now, the type of loss that never really goes away.
The House had a lengthy and troubled history, including violence and theft, court records show. He had been released from custody earlier this year and was due to appear in court the day following the shooting for a domestic violence case.
His former partner, in interviews with investigators, said he had long grappled with drug addiction and mental illness, a fight that he may have sought to exorcise in his music, but one that was manifestly untreated.
In the end, the man who once wanted to change his fate as a performer in H#### Kong didn’t leave behind a musical legacy but only the legacy of pain.
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