The slain trooper was identified as 31-year-old Joseph Cameron Ponder, the Kentucky State Police said. The birthday listed on the account matches Johnson-Shanks’. Troopers opened fire, ultimately killing Johnson-Shanks.
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At that point, according to the statement, the suspect’s auto abruptly stopped, causing Ponder to crash his auto into the vehicle. He was taken to the hospital in Princeton where he died at 8:23 a.m.
Ponder, the victim, had graduated from the Kentucky State Police training academy in January and was stationed at the state police post in Mayfield, according to a news release.
EDDYVILLE, KY – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says Interstate 24 has reopened to traffic between mile marker 45 and mile marker 56 in Lyon and Caldwell counties.
He graduated from North Hardin High School in 2002. “We didn’t know what type of injuries he received”.
A Facebook page was set up in honor.
State police spokesman Sgt. Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman in Houston, Texas, said of the execution of Deputy Darren Goforth, “We’ve heard Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter”. The date and location of his arrest, Ian Tuttle wrote, “coincides with the riots that broke out following the shooting death of Michael Brown; “interfering with a police officer” was a common charge during the protests”. There are also scads of photos posted of protests around Ferguson.
The account also indicates that Johnson-Shanks was an amateur tattoo artist, though not a particularly skilled one.
Details about the capture of 25-year-old Joseph Johnson-Shanks have not been released. The chase lasted for about nine miles, police say. Myers was shot after reportedly firing upon a police officer three times during a chase.
“Pray for our guys that are out here”, Lyon County Judge Executive Wade White asked. “I’ve been devastated the whole day”.
The Dream Defenders website describes the group as “an uprising of communities in struggle, shifting culture through transformational organizing”. If you see him, call 911 immediately.
In August of 2014, he was arrested for failing to appear in court after being charged with destruction of property.
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Johnson-Shanks was found early on Monday hiding in a wooded area. Upon making contact with Johnson-Shanks, Troopers of the Special Response Team (SRT) saw he had a firearm and instructed him to drop it. According to Nexis, this individual pled guilty in St. Louis in November 2007 to burglary in the second degree, a class C felony. He served in Hawaii for a period of time. She was a passenger in the vehicle and a niece to Joseph Thomas Johnston-Shanks.
