Officer Jason Ellis
On may 25 2013 officer jason ellis was killed after finishing his shift for the bardstown kentucky police department.
Officer jason ellis. Ellis had signed off on the radio and was driving home when he. To report that an officer had been fatally struck by a vehicle. The first killing to send shock waves through the community was the 2013 murder of 33 year old bardstown police officer jason ellis on may 25 of that year.
Wave six years after bardstown police officer jason ellis was murdered on his way home from work his family members continue a somber tradition. Tributes mark 6 years since assassination of bardstown officer jason ellis by taylor durden may 25 2019 at 12 13 am edt updated may 25 at 12 46 am bardstown ky. Jason ellis was a 33 year old police officer from bardstown kentucky when he was gunned down on his way home after working a late shift on may 25 2013.
Ellis fatal shooting in 2013 was the first of four recent unsolved cases with five victims in. In 2017 kentucky state police hired former troopers to investigate the cases of both rogers and jason ellis a bardstown police officer who was ambushed in 2013 and killed by at least two people. On may 25 2013 around 2 or 3 am ellis a police officer in bardstown kentucky was killed on his way home from work.
Jason joined the joined the bardstown police department as a police officer in 2006. During the season finale of oxygen s the disappearance of crystal rogers an anonymous prison inmate spoke with reporter stephanie bauer and retired homicide detective dwayne stanton to share information he claimed to know about the murder of 33 year old bardstown police officer jason ellis. A kentucky state police trooper responded to the scene and discovered that officer ellis had been shot.
A procession is planned for friday retracing ellis final ride past the bardstown police department down the parkway to the exit 34 ramp. Police officer jason ellis was shot and killed from ambush on an exit ramp off the bluegrass parkway shortly before 2 50 a m. In less than three years officer ellis received governor s awards for impaired driving enforcement in 2007 and 2008 and was awarded officer of the year in 2008.