A routine traffic stop on a Kentucky interstate turned deadly Monday when a state trooper was gunned down, launching a statewide manhunt that ended with a suspect in custody.

Trooper Hayden Phillips, 30, was killed along Interstate 65 in Warren County. He leaves behind a wife and three young sons.

“He was senselessly murdered,” U.S. Attorney Kyle Bumgarner said at a Monday night news conference. “We have a wife that expected her husband to come home. We have three little boys who don’t have a dad.”

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Phillips was a three-year veteran of…

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