EDMONSON COUNTY, KY. (THECOUNT) — Kristopher Burden, of Leitchfield, Kentucky, has been identified as the suspect killed in a motorcycle crash Thursday during a police pursuit in Edmonson County.

Burden, 34, was killed while fleeing police on a motorcycle near Bee Spring on Thursday afternoon.

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According to reports, Burden was operating an alleged stolen motorcycle around 1 p.m. Thursday, when police initiated a traffic stop. Burden fled the scene, and at some point, wrecked in the 2500 block of Sunfish Bee Spring Road in Bee Spring.

Burden was pronounced dead at the scene of blunt force trauma injuries.

An investigation into the deadly incident remains ongoing.

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Geo quick facts: Edmonson County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,161. Its county seat is Brownsville. The county was formed in 1825 and named for Captain John “Jack” Edmonson, who was killed at the Battle of Frenchtown during the War of 1812 – Wikipedia.