National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

Officer Rank: Police Officer

Memorial Panel: 51-E: 30

Department: Alcoa, Tennessee, P.D.

End of Watch: July 7, 1937

Cause: SHOT

Age: 43

Years of Service: 7

Description: Police Officer Hunt was shot in an exchange of gunfire with striking workers at an aluminum plant. The workers were angry that non-union workers had been escorted through the picket lines to the factory and a riot erupted. The officers attempted to quell the disturbance and the physical altercation escalated to shots fired. Officer Hunt was transported to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen and died later that evening. Eleven other officers were also wounded in the incident but survived.