A Kentucky community is in mourning after a 30-year-old state trooper and father of three was gunned down on the side of a highway during a routine traffic stop Monday afternoon.
Trooper Hayden Phillips was shot and killed after pulling over a Honda Civic with temporary Alabama license plates on Interstate 65 in Warren County, according to Kentucky State Police Commissioner Col. Phillip Burnett Jr. Phillips, a three-year veteran of the state police based in Bowling Green, was a devoted husband and father who previously served as a police officer, firefighter, and paramedic.
