Frank W. "Bud" Stuart

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks — Jackson, MS

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch September 21, 1948

Age 31

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 10

Incident

Game Warden Bud Stuart was shot and killed by a 66-year-old man he had just arrested for hunting squirrels out of season in Boly Swamp, 10 miles southwest of Poplarville, Mississippi. He had the suspect follow him out of the woods. As they left the woods, the man fatally shot him with four blasts from his 12 gauge shotgun near the Sones Bridge on the Osborn Moody Road. The suspect was arrested, convicted of murder, and sentenced to death. The Mississippi Supreme Court ordered a new trial resulting in a manslaughter conviction on April 17, 1950. He was sentenced to 20 years and paroled on October 23, 1957. Game Warden Stuart was a U.S. Navy veteran of WWII.

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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.
Game Warden Stuart served with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
Thank you for your service to the Jackson community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

Location Jackson, MS

Platform Identity mdwfpcons.fed.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 21, 1948

Age 31

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Shotgun; 12 gauge

Offender Paroled in 1957

Military Service

Frank W. "Bud" Stuart served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Game Warden Frank W. "Bud" Stuart is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In MS, 242 of 349 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 69.3% of this state's fallen. That is 15.1 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, 6 of 11 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 54.5% of this agency's fallen.

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

of 11 officers

54.5% Felonious

MS — Statewide

242

of 349 officers

69.3% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious