Charles H. Hurt

East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Department — Baton Rouge, LA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch November 13, 1963

Age 39

Tour of Duty 1 yrs 4 mo

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 12

Incident

Juvenile Officer Charles Hurt was shot and killed as he and another officer were searching for students who were playing hooky from school in Scotlandville. They were searching a wooded area at a community center near the high school when a 17-year-old student shot him once with a .22 caliber pistol. The subject was apprehended the next day. The suspect was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. The Louisiana Supreme Court awarded him a new trial in 1969, and he was again convicted of murder, but this time sentenced to life. In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory sentencing of life without parole for juvenile offenders was a “cruel and unusual” punishment. In 2016, the Supreme Court took up the suspect's case and extended their decision on such sentences to people already in prison. He was denied parole on October 12, 2019. He had been Louisiana's longest-serving inmate until he was granted parole on November 17, 2021. Officer Hurt had served with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office for 17 months.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and three children.

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Tributes

You barely got started.
Juvenile Officer Hurt gave the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office 1 year.
Thank you for your service to the Baton Rouge community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Juvenile Officer Hurt.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Department

Type Other

Location Baton Rouge, LA

Platform Identity ebrpso.ebr.la.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 13, 1963

Tour of Duty 1 yrs 4 mo

Age 39

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Charles H. Hurt served in the U.S. Coast Guard (1942â1946) before joining law enforcement.

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Juvenile Officer Charles H. Hurt is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In LA, 364 of 595 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 61.2% of this state's fallen. That is 61.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Department, 11 of 13 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 84.6% of this agency's fallen.

East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Department

of 13 officers

84.6% Felonious

LA — Statewide

364

of 595 officers

61.2% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Felonious