A police officer was shot while investigating a robbery. According the Richmond Mayor, the officer was shot at an apartment building on Ballard drive and has life threatening injuries. The shooting suspect was shot in the arm and the chest.
A police escort was set up to get the injured officer to UK Hospital as fast as possible.
The officer’s name is Daniel Ellis, he has been with the Richmond Police Department for seven years. He is still at UK hospital with life threatening injuries.
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This all started with an attempted personal robbery just before 7 a.m. at the Gulf Station on Main Street. The victim was able to get away and gave police a description of the suspect and the suspect’s vehicle.
That led the two officers to Ballard Street around 10:00 a.m. The two officers knocked on the door of Gregory Ratliff’s home, they were looking for Raleigh Sizemore in relation to the robbery. Ratliff let the officers in and told them he was home alone and that there were no guns in the home, according to the arrest citation, Ratliff later admitted both of those things were lies. Apparently before the officers arrived, Sizemore said that he had spent half his life in prison and wasn’t going back.
The citation says that Sizemore was in a bedroom with Rita Creech, he had a gun in his hand. When Officer Ellis crossed the threshold into the room, Sizemore shot him.
The second officer shot Sizemore, that officer was not injured.
25-year-old Gregory Ratliff has been charged with complicity to commit murder of a police officer. He was uninjured and is in the Madison County Detention Center.
Rita Creech, 44, has been charged with the robbery and is in the Madison County Detention Center.
Sizemore, 34, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and unlawful imprisonment.
“There really aren’t any words to try to put on what it’s like to have a fellow colleague and somebody that you know and work with in a small community suffering from these kinds of injuries and being at the hospital,” KSP Trooper Robert Purdy said in a press conference. “It really just is a scary thing.”
