LEBANON, Ky. – A deputy was shot and killed during a traffic stop in central Kentucky overnight.
Kentucky State Police said Marion County Deputy Anthony Rakes was shot after stopping a 2007 Kia around 1 a.m. CDT Wednesday. He was taken to Springview Hospital, where he died during surgery.
The shooting suspect, 49-year-old Dewayne Shipp, of McDaniel, Ky., was later arrested in Campbellsville during a traffic stop by Kentucky State Police and officers from the Campbellsville Police Department.
Shipp was charged with murder- Police Officer. He was transported to Taylor County Hospital to be treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his leg. It is unclear when he sustained the wound.
The medical examiner's office in Louisville will perform an autopsy on Rakes.
The 31-year-old deputy had been with the Marion County Sheriff's Office for six years and served on the Lebanon Police Department prior to becoming a deputy.
