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Deputy Terry Vick died in a single-vehicle automobile accident while traveling home from an overnight COVID testing site security detail.
Sheriff Matt Sanderson at the Kentucky Sheriffs' Boys & Girls Ranch Headquarters. Supporting youth is what it is all about. We have to invest in our youth and let them know we support them. The Boys & Girls Ranch is a great way to do that and we are proud to be a part of it. Summer 2015. Get involved today and find out more: http://kentuckysheriffs.ky.gov/boysandgirlsranch
County Patrolman John Allen was shot and killed from ambush while arresting three men for being drunk in public. (1925)
Deputy Sheriff Richard Hunter was shot and killed as he and a deputy attempted to arrest a man for cutting his wife's throat. (1921)
Deputy Murphy was shot and killed while going to the assistance of another deputy and the Madisonville police chief, who were involved in a shootout with two suspects. Deputy Murphy was struck once in the abdomen and suffered a fatal wound. He was taken to the local hospital where he died three days later. (1925)
Four Hopkins County law enforcement officers, who were killed in the line of duty many years ago, are going to be honored in May when their names are placed on the police memorial wall in Washington. These officers served our community around the turn of the 20th century.
