Category: Line of Duty Death
Senior Correctional Officer Scott Riner: EOW – December 13, 2022
Gwinnett County Department of Corrections – Georgia Senior Correctional Officer Scott Riner arrived for his shift at 5:15 a.m. at the Gwinnett County Correctional Complex’s employee parking lot. As he prepared to exit his vehicle, a suspicious person approached the passenger side. Officer Riner exited his vehicle and went towards the back of his vehicle […]
Detention Corporal Gregory Horne Sr. – EOW: September 25, 2022
Edgecombe County| Sheriff’s Office | North Carolina On August 16, 2022, Detention Corporal Gregory Horne was participating in training. During the fence jump he landed awkwardly, but finished the remainder of the course. He advised the Training Sergeant he had injured his knee during the fence jump and was advised to sit out the remainder […]
Correctional Officer III Helen Smith – EOW: February 3, 2022
While responding to a disturbance in a dorm, Correctional Officer III Helen Smith of Pasquotank Correctional Institution, encountered an inmate who was trying to exit the dorm while surrounded by several other inmates. Officer Smith radioed for the slider door to open, and pulled the inmate out of the dorm. He became combative and struggled […]
Detention Officer Jeremiah Story – EOW: June 22, 2022
Perry County Sheriff’s Office, Arkansas On June 22, 2022, Detention Officer Jeremiah Story was processing a subject into the Perry County Detention Center, who had been arrested for driving while intoxicated. He and a trustee took the subject into the restroom to supervise as he changed into jail-issued clothing. The subject became […]
Oklahoma State Prison – 1914
Before Oklahoma became a state in 1907, felons convicted in the Oklahoma Territory were sent to the Kansas State Penitentiary located in Lansing, Kansas. Upon statehood, Kate Barnard became the Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections. She first visited the Kansas prison during the summer of 1908 after many Oklahoma inmates had began […]
Sergeant Joshua Caudell – EOW: February 28, 2022
On February 28, 2022, deputies with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence of a known felon, on state-supervised probation, to perform a welfare check, after reports of a woman who was being held against her will. When the deputies arrived at the residence, shots were fired from inside the home. After a […]
Massachusetts State Farm in Bridgewater
Correctional Officer Franklin Weston, Correctional Officer George Landry, and Correctional Officer Howard Murphy were stabbed to death at the Massachusetts State Farm in Bridgewater. The three officers were working in the Department of Defective Delinquents section of the farm at the time. Officer Weston had gone with two inmates to carpentry and shoe shop to […]
Detention Sergeant Russell Jones
Detention Sergeant Russell Jones, 36, lost his life in the line of duty after suffering a medical emergency in the Detention Center on Wednesday, Dec. 6, according to the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office. On Dec. 6, Detention Sergeant Russell Jones was trying to subdue an inmate when he was punched in the face, ODMP […]
Safe Travels to North Carolina
We would like to wish safe travels to the CPOF National Honor Guard Team, Board of Directors, staff and field representatives as they make their way to the funeral of Detention Sergeant Russell Jones, a detention officer with the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office. Jones, 36, worked as a detention officer with the sheriff’s office […]
Correctional Officer Jovian Jamal Motley – EOW November 13, 2023
Jovian Motley was born to two loving parents, Edward and Tammica Motley, on October 14, 1996. He and his sister, Iyanna, grew up in Houston, Texas, with the church being a big part of their lives. Jovian was a part of the mime team, the choir and played football in high school. He was […]
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