Roll of Honor
Incident
Sergeant Donald Scoby was shot and killed while pursuing a subject who fled from a traffic stop.
Sergeant Scoby attempted to stop the subject's vehicle at about 11:00 pm, but the man fled, and a vehicle pursuit ensued. The man abandoned his vehicle in the area of Reiger Road and S Yoder Road and fled on foot, with Sergeant Scoby chasing him. He shot Sergeant Scoby during the foot pursuit.
The subject barricaded himself in a home. He was killed during an exchange of gunfire with responding SWAT officers. Another officer was wounded during the shootout.
Sergeant Scoby had served with the Stuttgart Police Department for four years.
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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Sergeant Scoby gave the Stuttgart Police Department 4 years.
Thank you for your service to the Stuttgart community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Military Service
Donald Scoby served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.
Sergeant Donald Scoby 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 AR, 249 of 372 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 66.9% of this state's fallen. That is 66.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
National Cause Distribution
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How Donald Scoby Compares
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Incident Location
Military Service
Donald Scoby served in the United States military before joining law enforcement.
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