JAMES P RUTLAND
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 51-E: 20
Department: Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, S.D.
End of Watch: February 21, 1997
Cause: SHOT
Age: 53
Years of Service: 2
Description: Deputy Rutland and Deputy Thomas W. Bourne were transporting a prisoner to a local correctional facility when the prisoner produced a weapon. Both deputies died from gun shot wounds to the head.
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