KEVAN MAURICE WARD

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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 4-W: 1
Department: Lauderdale County, Tennessee, S.D.
End of Watch: January 2, 1990
Cause: SHOT
Age: 31
Years of Service: 4
Description: Deputy Sheriffs Ward and Bobby Nolen were shot without provocation while providing assistance to a motorist whose car was stuck. The deputies were giving the motorist a ride when the man pulled a gun and fatally shot both Deputy Ward and Deputy Nolen. The suspect was arrested and charged with murder but was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial.
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