Kentucky policeman shot and killed in apparent highway ambush

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[Java4Jay]

A Kentucky policeman was shot and killed in an apparent ambush when he stopped to pick up debris on a highway exit ramp, the Courier-Journal newspaper said on Sunday.

Bardstown Police Officer Jason Ellis, 33, was found shot to death on an exit ramp on the Blue Grass Parkway in north central Kentucky early Saturday morning.

[Java4Jay]

Ellis had been with the Bardstown Police Department since 2006 and left behind a wife and two small children, the department said on its Facebook page.

[Da Coyote]

May the shooters go to where the Obamadork will go when they die.

[Paladin2]

"stopped to pick up debris that had been deliberately placed in the roadway"

We can take a fuller description of the offending material("debris").

[cripplecreek]

Hope the scumbag murderers are found quickly.

[cardinal4]

Sorry to hear this. Deliberately targeting cops, gang initiation? Organized crime?

[cripplecreek]

Very odd really. Unless they had literally blocked the road there’s no reason to expect a cop to stop and pick it up let alone know when.

[yarddog]

I guess it could be anything but organized crime was the first thing I thought of too.

[cardinal4]

It IS odd. I wonder what the debris was..

[shadeaud]

Assassination sounds like it. Cops will investigate and I just hope its not family related

[omega4179]

I’m going with Mexi Cartels proving they can do whatever they want.

[abclily]

Muzzies?

[yarddog]

Yes it is odd because a lot of civilians will stop and get debris off the road too.

A guess would be they knew he was coming and put it there just beforehand but who knows?

[no-to-illegals]

Actually creek have seen a State Trooper stop and pick up one bag of fast food trash before. I was behind him.

[Bratch]

He was a pretty good baseball player. He was in the Cincinnati Reds farm system for a few years before he became a police officer.

Supposedly, they’ve found 12-gauge shotgun shells on the hill where the shooting allegedly occurred. It’s an odd situation.

[basil]

That was my first guess....

[cripplecreek]

Yeah I’ve seen similar behavior and I’ve seen cops swerve around trash in the road and keep on going.

[no-to-illegals]

odd situation ... another of a long list of what to look out for. First time have read of someone using trash as a plant for an ambush. Something maybe missing in the article.

[tflabo]

Just wonderful.....heaven will be absent of any such evil and its doers of such despicable crimes.

[SeminoleCounty]

Shotgun.....

Fragged by other LEOs?

[cripplecreek]

Here’s a thought.

Test run for a potential IED ?