By Steve Bittenbender
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov 6 (Reuters) - A central Kentucky police
officer who was shot while investigating an armed robbery has
died from his injuries, the Kentucky State Police said on
Friday.
Richmond Police Officer Daniel Ellis, 33, was shot Wednesday
morning by a man while he and another officer were searching an
apartment in a town about 25 miles (40 km) south of Lexington.
The other officer returned fire and wounded the suspect,
identified as Raleigh Sizemore. Sizemore was treated for his
injuries and arrested, police said.
Ellis died early Friday at the University of Kentucky
Medical Center in Lexington, where he had been taken after the
shooting, police said. He had been with the department seven
years.
Sizemore, 34, had been charged with attempted murder of a
police officer and unlawful imprisonment after the shooting. He
was being held at the Kentucky State Reformatory in LaGrange,
Kentucky corrections spokesman Mike Caudill said.
Ellis was shot in the apartment of Gregory Ratliff, 25, who
was charged with complicity to commit murder of a police
officer, authorities said. Ratliff was being held in the Madison
County jail.
(Reporting by Steve Bittenbender; Editing by David Bailey and
Lisa Lambert)
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