RUPERT HOLLIDAY PEETE JR

Officer Rank: Patrolman
Memorial Panel: 58-W: 22
Department: Shelby County, Tennessee, S.O.
End of Watch: March 8, 2000
Cause: SHOT
Age: 45
Years of Service: 3
Description: Deputy Peete was shot and killed after being ambushed by a mentally deranged man who had just murdered two firefighters. The firefighters had responded to a call of a house fire when they were ambushed. Before he could exit his cruiser, Deputy Peete was fatally shot. The suspect, a firefighter himself, killed three people in this incident before being shot and killed himself.
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