Police: Kentucky trooper cutting doubtable is attempt and killed, A Kentucky accompaniment trooper was dead in a cutting during a chase, and admiral attempt and dead the doubtable if he banned to bead his weapon afterwards an hours-long manhunt, badge said Monday.
Trooper Joseph Cameron Ponder, who was 31 and had been on the force beneath than a year, was administering a cartage stop Sunday night on Interstate 24 if the disciplinarian fled, Kentucky Accompaniment Badge said.
A hunt ensued with the doubtable endlessly abruptly, causing the trooper's car to "make contact" with the rear of the suspect's vehicle, said Trooper Jay Thomas, a accompaniment badge spokesman.
"At that point, the doubtable leaned out of the driver-side window and accursed assorted circuit at the trooper's car, arresting the hood, the windshield and arresting our trooper," Thomas said.
Ponder was hit assorted times and was taken to a hospital, breadth he died anon afore midnight.
The suspect, 25-year-old Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks of Florissant, Missouri, ran abroad and was begin hours after in a rural, abounding breadth a brace of afar from the shooting, Thomas said. Johnson-Shanks banned to bead his weapon and was attempt by officers, and he after died at a hospital, Thomas said.
Ponder had accelerating from the Kentucky Accompaniment Badge training academy in January and was stationed at the accompaniment badge column in Mayfield, badge said. He was individual and a Navy veteran.
"He was actual appreciative to be a Kentucky Accompaniment Trooper," Thomas said. "He was new, he was acquisitive and just actually admired his job."
State badge said abundant law administration agencies, as able-bodied as helicopters and dogs, were acclimated to advice with seek efforts in the rural, abounding breadth that has homes broadcast about. Thomas said there are abundant abandoned summer homes in the area.
Police say Interstate 24 will abide shut down from mile markers 45 to 56 while board aggregate evidence.
Thomas said three added humans were in the suspect's car if he chock-full — a woman and two children. Thomas said they were questioned but acquire not been answerable or arrested. He did not absolution their names and did not apperceive their accord to the suspect.
Thomas said he didn't apperceive the acumen for the antecedent cartage stop on the vehicle, which was headed west on I-24.
Ponder is the additional trooper from the Mayfield column to be dead in the band of assignment this year.
In June, 23-year-old Erick K. Chrisman died in a cartage blast while responding to a adventuresome active complaint. He had aswell accelerating from the badge academy in January.
"We're all just captivation calm the best that we can and just abide to do our jobs," Thomas said.
"We face dangers every day that ... we put our compatible on and we go out to assure the public," Thomas said. "It's allotment of our job. We apperceive the risks that are out there and we acquire those risks."
Trooper Joseph Cameron Ponder, who was 31 and had been on the force beneath than a year, was administering a cartage stop Sunday night on Interstate 24 if the disciplinarian fled, Kentucky Accompaniment Badge said.
"At that point, the doubtable leaned out of the driver-side window and accursed assorted circuit at the trooper's car, arresting the hood, the windshield and arresting our trooper," Thomas said.
Ponder was hit assorted times and was taken to a hospital, breadth he died anon afore midnight.
The suspect, 25-year-old Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks of Florissant, Missouri, ran abroad and was begin hours after in a rural, abounding breadth a brace of afar from the shooting, Thomas said. Johnson-Shanks banned to bead his weapon and was attempt by officers, and he after died at a hospital, Thomas said.
Ponder had accelerating from the Kentucky Accompaniment Badge training academy in January and was stationed at the accompaniment badge column in Mayfield, badge said. He was individual and a Navy veteran.
"He was actual appreciative to be a Kentucky Accompaniment Trooper," Thomas said. "He was new, he was acquisitive and just actually admired his job."
State badge said abundant law administration agencies, as able-bodied as helicopters and dogs, were acclimated to advice with seek efforts in the rural, abounding breadth that has homes broadcast about. Thomas said there are abundant abandoned summer homes in the area.
Police say Interstate 24 will abide shut down from mile markers 45 to 56 while board aggregate evidence.
Thomas said three added humans were in the suspect's car if he chock-full — a woman and two children. Thomas said they were questioned but acquire not been answerable or arrested. He did not absolution their names and did not apperceive their accord to the suspect.
Thomas said he didn't apperceive the acumen for the antecedent cartage stop on the vehicle, which was headed west on I-24.
Ponder is the additional trooper from the Mayfield column to be dead in the band of assignment this year.
In June, 23-year-old Erick K. Chrisman died in a cartage blast while responding to a adventuresome active complaint. He had aswell accelerating from the badge academy in January.
"We're all just captivation calm the best that we can and just abide to do our jobs," Thomas said.
"We face dangers every day that ... we put our compatible on and we go out to assure the public," Thomas said. "It's allotment of our job. We apperceive the risks that are out there and we acquire those risks."
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