Gregory Floyd Medlin

DeSoto County Sheriff's Office — Hernando, MS

Accident

End of Watch November 2, 2003

Age 31

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

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Gender Male

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Incident

Lieutenant Gregory Medlin succumbed to injuries sustained in an automobile crash five weeks earlier.

He was responding to a call involving a suspicious vehicle parked in front of a church shortly after midnight when his patrol car left the roadway on Bethel Road near College Road. The patrol car flipped over several times, and Lieutenant Medlin was ejected from the vehicle. He was taken to Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee, where he remained until his death.

Lieutenant Medlin had served with the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department for 10 years.

Survivors

He is survived by his two young daughters, parents, two sisters, and nephew.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Lieutenant Medlin gave the DeSoto County Sheriff's Office 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the Hernando community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Lieutenant Medlin.

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

Agency

Department DeSoto County Sheriff's Office

Location Hernando, MS

Platform Identity dcso.desoto.ms.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 2, 2003

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

Age 31

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Cause Detail Automobile crash

Lieutenant Gregory Floyd Medlin is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In MS, 89 of 349 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 25.5% of this state's fallen. That is 5.5 percentage points below the national rate of 31%.

At DeSoto County Sheriff's Office, 2 of 10 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 20% of this agency's fallen.

DeSoto County Sheriff's Office

of 10 officers

20% Accident

MS — Statewide

of 349 officers

25.5% Accident

Nationwide

10,088

of 32,508 officers

31% Accident