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RANDY PATRICK/The Kentucky Standard

Bardstown Police officers, Nelson County sheriff's deputies and other first responders gather outside Barlow Funeral Home after Officer Jason Ellis' body is brought back to Bardstown from the medical examiner's office in Louisville. A large procession of police, firefighters and emergency personnel made their way down I-65 and along Ky. 245 to the funeral home.

Bardstown police officer shot and killed

The Bardstown Police officer who was killed early Saturday morning on the Blue Grass Parkway exit ramp at Bloomfield Road (Ky. 55) was apparently ambushed by someone with a 12-gauge shotgun, according to Nelson County Coroner Field Houghlin.

The Kentucky Standard was unable to reach Houghlin late last night, but Louisville TV station WDRB reported that Officer Jason Ellis died of wounds from shotgun blasts, and that there were 12-gauge shell casings found at the scene.