JAMES PINKNEY KENNEDY
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Officer Rank: Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 56-W: 19
Department: Monroe County, Tennessee, S.O.
End of Watch: March 19, 1930
Cause: SHOT
Age: 47
Years of Service: 7
Description: Sheriff Kennedy was accidentally shot while responding to a report of a burglary at a grocery store where there had been a string of burglaries. The store manager, who had made the report, mistook Sheriff Kennedy for the robber and shot him twice.
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