The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Ky. — An autopsy is to be performed on the body of a man who died at the U-K Hospital following an encounter with a state trooper at a southern Kentucky jail.
State police say 53-year-old Billy Phillips of Columbia was arrested June first after being stopped on Kentucky 80 in Adair County, near the Adair-Russell County line, for driving under the influence.
Phillips suffered a head injury at the Adair County Jail during an altercation with 34-year-old Trooper Bramlett Burton. A state police spokesman says Phillips had lunged at Burton. Although adding that Burton struck Phillips, the spokesman says Phillips struck the wall or concrete floor when he fell.
State police say Phillips was handcuffed in the front of his body during the altercation at the jail. Public Affairs officer, Lieutenant Phil Crumpton, says Burton has been with the state police for three years. He was placed on administrative duty.