WAYNE HAROLD GAITHER
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 19-W: 13
Department: Davie County, North Carolina, S.D.
End of Watch: May 31, 1975
Cause: SHOT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Deputy Gaither was shot and mortally wounded by a man after he stopped him in his vehicle. He succumbed to his wounds the next day. The suspect also shot and killed Captain Jack Renigar, of the Forsyth County Sheriff's Department, as he and other officers were attempting to arrest him for the shooting of Deputy Gaither.
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