A suspected gang member arrested over the weekend in Nelson County claims he killed Bardstown Police Department officer Jason Ellis.
Deputies arrested Brant Sheckles, 24, after he and a group of people crashed a field party. Officials say the group showed up uninvited and assaulted several people. Witnesses reported hearing members of the group shouting “Big Money Bardstown Gang.”
Deputies say Sheckles threatened the arresting officer and then said he killed Officer Ellis. Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin told the Kentucky Standard he heard that Sheckles claimed to have “two murders under his belt” and publicly claimed responsibility for Ellis’ killing at Saturday’s party.
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Sheckles, who is the nephew of Bardstown Mayor Bill Sheckles, was charged with menacing and terroristic threatening.
According to the Kentucky Standard, Sheckles also threatened arresting officers when they arrested him back on July 6 for disorderly conduct, alcohol intoxication, fleeing or evading police and terroristic threatening. According to the police report, “On the way to jail Sheckles made several threats to my life and comments involving Officer Ellis’ murder.”
Investigators say they looked into the gang early on since Ellis arrested three members before his death.
McCubbin said he thinks it’s all talk.
“I think this boils down to a bunch of punks, who are wannabes, who need to get a job and quit being leeches to society,” he said. “They’re trying to empower themselves by making that claim, intimidating people, and using the fear factor that ‘I’m so bad I killed a cop.'”
Officials say the sheriff has called a meeting of city and county members for Wednesday to focus efforts on the Bardstown Money Gang.
Ellis was gunned down in an apparent ambush along an onramp to the Bluegrass Parkway back on May 25
