Friday, March 30, 2018
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting an off-duty police officer in a small Kentucky city has been killed by law-enforcement officials in Tennessee.
Kentucky State Police Trooper Rob Austin says in a statement today that 34-year-old James K. Decoursey of Hopkinsville "had a brief encounter with law enforcement" officials in Clarksville, Tenn., where he "was shot and died from his injuries."
Kentucky State police say Decoursey shot and killed 38-year-old Hopkinsville officer Phillip Meacham on Thursday afternoon, then fled on foot before taking off in a pickup truck.
Meacham, who was married and had two school-age children, had been with the Hopkinsville department since May 2017. Before that worked for about 14 years with the Christian County Sheriff's Department.
Hopkinsville is about 73 miles northwest of Nashville, Tenn.