Deputy Michael Allen Van Kuren
Deputy Michael Van Kuren, 36, of Warren Center was shot and killed along with Deputy Christopher M. Burgert, 30, of Sayre, on March 31, 2004 in Wells Township, Bradford County, in Northeastern Pennsylvania with a .357 Magnum. Both were trying to serve a bench warrant on Dustin F. Briggs, 27, for failure to appear in […]
Deputy Sheriff Brian Robert Litz
Deputy Litz, 36, was shot and killed February 7, 2004 at approximately 1300 hours while making a routine well-being check on an elderly man, Ivan K. Gotham, 74, who lived alone in a retirement community at 9030 S.W. 104th Place in Pine Run, Ocala, Florida. The man’s youngest son, Gary Gotham called from his Virginia home […]
Officer Lisa Kern
K-9 Officer Lisa Kern, 35, of the Minneapolis, MN Police Department died on July 11, 2004. Officer Kern was a 14 year veteran who died of a brain aneurysm while on duty and taking a break at one of the police precincts. At the time Officer Kern was working an overnight shift when at some point […]
Officer Jesse Erick Sollmon
K9 Officer Jesse E. Sollman, 36, was accidentally shot in the back and killed on March 25, 2005, by one of his fellow officers, Matthew Renninger, after conducting a training exercise at the Easton Police Department headquarters in Pennsylvania on South Third Street near the end of his shift. The incident occurred after Sollman and […]
Trooper Jonathan Wade Parker
Trooper Jonathan Parker, 29, was killed on 5/16/05 at approximately noon. An armed robbery suspect who was running from police had robbed the Circle-C store at a truck stop on I-95 in Colleton County around 10:00 a.m. earlier in the morning and was being pursued by Clarendon County Deputies and Manning Police Officers at high […]
Detective Marty James Mitchetti
He worked as a certified welder at West Point until 1995 when he joined the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. He worked at the Sheriff’s office as a Police Officer until 1998 when he joined the New Windsor Police Department on January 27, 1998. He served as Patrol Officer and was assigned as a K-9 Officer […]
Officer Matthew Haverkamp
Golf Manor K-9 Officer Matthew Haverkamp, 29, was killed in a motor vehicle accident July 15, 2005 at 2:35 a.m. Officer Haverkamp was off duty driving his black 2001 Range Rover Discovery on I-75 south when he swerved out of his lane and collided with a white 2005 Lincoln Navigator between Galbraith and Paddock exits. […]
Officer Kelly Lee Hammond
Louisville Metro Police K9 Officer Kelly Hammond, 39, died on 6/22/05 at a friends farm in the 17000 block of Taylorsville Road in eastern Jefferson County while helping a friend cut grass. He was standing between the front and rear wheels of the tractor, giving instructions to a juvenile in the drivers seat on how […]
Officer Roy Lundell Nelson Jr.
Officer Roy L. Nelson Jr., 36, and his police K9, Ceasar, were killed on 8/13/05 approximately 11:40 p.m. when responding to a scene of a reported burglary and swerved his vehicle to avoid another vehicle and crashed just east of the South Causeway on State Road A1A. Both Nelson and his K9 Ceasar were pronounced […]
Officer Quinn Jackson Witherspoon
Officer Quinn Witherspoon, 34, died 9/13/05 at 904 South Magnolia Street in his Mooresville home. He was found lying on the couch in the living room with a single gunshot wound to the head with his own 40 caliber Beretta service weapon. His wife Misty placed the 911 call at approximately 2:10 p.m. At the […]
