Roll of Honor
Jake James McCullough Jr.
Incident
Chief of Police Jake McCullough succumbed to injuries sustained one month earlier in an automobile crash while following an ambulance to a hospital in Escanaba. The ambulance was transporting a child who had been hit by a car in Wilson. Chief McCullough was taking the child's parents to the hospital when his patrol car collided with a tractor-trailer in Escanaba several blocks away from the hospital. Chief McCullough was a U.S. Army veteran and had served as the Hannahville Tribal Police Department's chief since the agency's inception in 1974.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife, son, and three daughters.
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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.
Chief of Police McCullough gave the Hannahville Tribal Police Department 7 years.
Thank you for your service to the Wilson 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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Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Jake James McCullough Jr. served in the U.S. Army (1960â1963) before joining law enforcement.
Chief of Police Jake James McCullough Jr. is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.
In NC, 205 of 664 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 30.9% of this state's fallen. That is 30.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
National Cause Distribution
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Incident Location
Military Service
Jake James McCullough Jr. served in the U.S. Army (1960–1963) before joining law enforcement.
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