ealth,  Bumgarner said.  One of our own was gunned down and murdered on the side of the road. 

Phillips, who would have turned 29 on Wednesday, had been with the agency for three years and was based in Bowling Green in south-central Kentucky. He was a husband and father of three.

Dozens of law enforcement vehicles escorted his body from the medical examiner's office in Louisville, where an autopsy was performed, to a funeral home in his hometown of Glasgow on Tuesday. Funeral arrangements were pending.

First responders and residents of Russell County attended a vigil for Phillips on Monday night in Russell Springs, where he had once served as a firefighter, emergency medical technician and a police officer.

In a statement, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear called Phillips  a hero who dedicated himself to protecting our commonwealth.