Chapter 96 1
CHAPTER 96 1 CHAPTER 96 ( HJR 5 ) A JOINT RESOLUTION designating honorary names for various roads and bridges and directing the placement of honorary roadside signs. WHEREAS, Daniel Ellis was born April 22, 1982, to Kelly and Nancy West Ellis of Campbellsville; and WHEREAS, Daniel Ellis, a quiet, hardworking young man who dreamed of a career in law enforcement, graduated from Taylor County High School in 2000; and WHEREAS, Daniel Ellis then attended and graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 2005 with a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice, where he met his loving wife, the former Katie Gruenwald; and WHEREAS, Officer Daniel Ellis began working for the Richmond Police Department on August 11, 2008; and WHEREAS, to the citizens of Richmond, Officer Daniel Ellis was the kind of police officer you want in your community: hardworking, courteous, and respectful in a job where you often interact with people on some of the worst days of their lives; and WHEREAS, on November 4, 2015, Officer Daniel Ellis, while entering a house he was told was unoccupied in order to investigate a robbery, was cowardly ambushed and shot in the head by an occupant of the building; and WHEREAS, Officer Daniel Ellis succumbed to his wounds two days later, passing away on November 6, 2015, at the age of 33; and WHEREAS, the tragic death of Officer Daniel Ellis has not only galvanized the Richmond community, but has struck a chord across the state and region, with over 7,000 attending his memorial service at Eastern Kentucky University, and law enforcement officers from as far away as Alabama and New York joining in the 12-mile-long procession that carried Officer Ellis the nearly 100 miles to his final resting place; and WHEREAS, at his memorial, Officer Daniel Ellis, who had recently been promoted and was set to begin duty as a detective, was remembered by Richmond Police Chief Larry Brock, who said, "He turned out to be a great police officer.
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