Line of Duty Deaths Lowest Since 1959
WASHINGTON --
The death of a Washington state police officer Dec. 28 raised the total law enforcement deaths in 2009 to 125, still the fewest annual fatalities in the line of duty since 1959.
The 125 deaths compared to 133 in 2008, the lowest since 108 a half-century ago, according to the annual report of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
The latest to die was 44-year-old Pierce County, Wash. sheriff's deputy Kent Mundell, who had been on life support. Shot in an ambush by a drunken man, he was the sixth police officer to die from gunfire in Washington state in less than two months.
- From the Associated Press
Southern Indiana deputy killed in car crash
Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy Roy B. (Bruce) Sutton, 35, of Hanover, was killed late Friday night in a one-vehicle crash while responding to a 911 call near Madison, Indiana. Deputy Sutton was found dead at the scene of the accident, according to authorities.
Sutton was one of three Deputies responding to the 911 call reporting domestic abuse, according to a news release by the Indiana State Police.
"Two of the deputies had just arrived at the scene and the third deputy was very near the scene when he met a vehicle traveling westbound on the very hilly and winding Dugan Hollow Road,'' the news release said.
"The sheriff’s vehicle ran off the right side of the roadway and went down a very steep embankment and was airborne when the driver’s side of the vehicle struck a tree. Despite the fact the deputy was wearing his seat belt, he suffered fatal head trauma ... ''
Sutton, an 18-month veteran of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, leaves behind a wife and no children.
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