BILLY RAY WALLS III

Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 6-E: 22
Department: Jessamine County, Kentucky, S.O.
End of Watch: November 13, 2001
Cause: SHOT
Age: 28
Years of Service: 7
Description: Deputy Walls was shot and killed while attempting to serve a warrant on a suspect wanted for terrorist threats. Captain Chuck Morgan and Deputy Sammy Brown accompanied Deputy Walls to serve the warrant. The suspect was a seventy year old cancer patient. He allowed the three deputies to enter his houseboat before shooting them with a rifle. Deputy Walls was pronounced dead at the scene. Although critically wounded, Captain Morgan and Deputy Brown returned fire and killed the suspect. Both deputies were transported to a local hospital in critical condition. Captain Morgan remained in the hospital for three weeks before succumbing to his injuries on November 28th.
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