Local Agencies Show Support at Trooper Ponder’s Funeral

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Several Marshall County law enforcement and first responders are showing their support as Kentucky State Police Trooper Cameron Ponder is laid to rest in Elizabethtown.

Thirty-one-year-old Cameron Ponder was shot to death late Sunday in Lyon County after a high-speed chase that reportedly began after the trooper pulled over Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks for speeding.

Police say Johnson-Shanks was shot to death by other Kentucky troopers after he refused to surrender.