BRENT K JACOBSON

Officer Rank: Officer
Memorial Panel: 1-E: 4
Department: U.S. Forest Service
End of Watch: January 12, 1989
Cause: SHOT
Age: 41
Years of Service: 17
Description: Officer Jacobson was shot while searching for two suspects. After a home invasion burglary and a shootout with an unmarked police car, two felons escaped on foot into the wilds of Idaho. U.S. Forest Service Officer Brent Jacobson, and Deputy Steve Barbieri, with whom he was partnered, along with several officers from other law enforcement agencies, pursued the felons for over 23 hours in waist high snow. As the officers approached the suspects Officer Jacobson was gunned down. Deputy Barbieri was named the NLEOMF Officer of the Month for January 2000.
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