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If we abandon civility, if we just allow, you know, it's kind of madness to go on, then what are we doing here to begin with, you know, what's the point to all of it?

I'm Shay McAllister. This is Bardstown.

The FBI and its law enforcement partners are seeking information about the murder of police officer Jason Ellis, Chief Division Council of the Louisville Kentucky FBI Mary Trotman.

The FBI has just recently approved up to $50,000 for information leading to the identification, arrested convictions of those responsible.

When a police officer is specifically targeted, that is a higher danger to the public.

Someone has information and that information could help catch the killer of a fine police officer husband and father.

Someone was laying in wait for Jason Ellis to come around the exit 34 ramp off Bluegrass Parkway on May 25, 2013.

The culprit had deliberately placed tree limbs across the roadway and when the officer got out to clear the debris, he was shot and killed.

I think it demonstrates that they had considered a contingency as well because there were more than one shooter and there were multiple rounds that were fired.

So it was expressive and it was intentional. It wasn't a mistake. It wasn't a crossfire. It was definitely a targeted assassination. They put great foresight into this.

They also cut Jason off from any type of defense. He's helpless. These guys then all they had to do was take the coward's approach, which is from the rear.

And that's the way they set this up. They funneled him into a kill zone and ambushed him before he had a chance to draw his weapon.

Are you better off in life now because you killed this officer or your situation better off because you killed this officer because you put an entire family and entire police department in an entire community upside down because of your selfishness.

To his widow and their two sons, he was more than just a barge town police officer. He was there everything.

I think about him all the time. One of the hardest things is I still, the grieving process, there's not a manual for it. There's not a timeline for it. Everybody's different.

And it hits you in waves and it comes and it goes. I really feel for my boys and things that they have to miss out on.

Former barge town police chief Rick McCubbin, who's now the police chief for Shupper's Vilkentucky, meets up with us at the Blind Pig Speakeasy in barge town. His favorite place to grab a glass of bourbon on the rocks.

I think about it every day. There's not been a day in the six years or goes by, I don't think about it. Somehow something. You know, live here still. I go by the ramp. My son's a cop now. He's a deputy with sheriff's office.

I mean, of course I think about it every day, you know. He sits with us casually out of uniform wearing a polo shirt and khaki shorts.

The dimly lit speak easy is adorned with chandelier sconces, blue velvet couches and a black pot belly stove.

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