yup, it just doesn't make sense to leave evidence behind like that when there was prolly enough time to pick them up
Posted on 05/26/2013 5:49:24 PM PDT by 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.
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I'd examine the history too.
intrigue!
According to Trooper Norman Chaffins, Ellis was shot and killed after he stopped to move debris from the roadway early Saturday morning on an off-ramp leading from the Bluegrass Parkway to Highway 55 in Nelson County. Chaffins said it is unclear at this point in the investigation if Ellis was the intended target of the shooting.Video at link.As of now, Chaffins said the only people who have been eliminated as suspects are those conducting the investigation.
According to the Nelson County coroner's office, a 12-gauge shotgun was used to Ellis multiple times. Investigators said Ellis' service revolver was in its holster when he was found dead by a passerby just before 3 a.m. and that Ellis had no radio communications with dispatch in the minutes before his death.
Ellis was a husband, father of two, and a pee wee baseball head coach. He is the first Bardstown police officer killed in the line of duty in the department's 150-year history and the department's only K-9 officer.
Someone who knew he was going to be there to pick up the ‘debris’ would logically be the culprit?
Again, unless this wasn’t personal to him and the idea was kill a cop any cop. Like a gang initiation.
Not a lot of traffic on the BG even during the day. There have been times where I’ve driven it early in the morning and I wouldn’t see more than two or three cars until I got to Versailles, just over sixty miles away.
Too early. The hulls could be unrelated but would be collected anyway.
Jihad maybe? Who knows for sure?
Whoops, hadn’t seen the post above. Scratch mine.
I used to feel bad about this kind of thing. Now I just can’t.
Plenty. Pretty much what you can expect in rural areas.
And the dimwits in government think that restricting my access to cold medicine is the solution. The state carefully tracks all sales of Sudafed now. That's not stopping the meth labs, so they are now floating the idea of requiring prescriptions to get it. They always double down on bad ideas.
Though I don't believe it is relevant to this killing, one should note that this area is "famous" for the Cornbread Mafia (pot growers). But it is the meth types that are the killers. There is a lot of looking the other way as regards pot. They're not shooting cops over that.
yup, it just doesn't make sense to leave evidence behind like that when there was prolly enough time to pick them up
It’s this sort of cr@p that gets borderline unstable officers a mite quick on their own triggers. Wrong is wrong no matter who suffers.
My brother in law lives in E-town. We drove past that mosque, it is a squat round ugly thing with the crescent & star sticking out of the top of the dome like an upraised middle finger. Won’t repeat here what I said I would like to do with that place.
Hope the facts in the murder of this officer come out very soon. Kentucky is getting infested with muzzies; lots of them, Somalis, in Louisville.
War is coming, my fellow “infidels”.
Only to sit and ponder upon this....what cop have you ever seen to pick up debris on the road? Other than a tire or a piece of lumber....cops just don’t do that normally.
sure they'd be picked up no matter what, but, i think the odds of a coincidence like that would be astronomical...
“And, it just happened to be an officer upholding his pledge to “Serve and Protect”.”
It has been a long time since “Serve and Protect” has been a part of a LEO’s creed...
My point is that the nature of the debris is important and that the media are derelict in not providing a more definite description of same.
Maybe it WAS something like that? Something which would have been a road hazard?
That was my first guess too, since we're all guessing. It was nothing personal. The shooter would have happily shot anyone who stopped to remove the debris.
Well it’s just WHO they serve. More and more especially with unions it seems to be self a depressingly large proportion of the time. The old fashioned hero copper is an endangered species.
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