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Detective

Jarrod Brent Shivers

Chesapeake Police Department — Chesapeake, VA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch January 17, 2008

Age 34

Tour of Duty 8 yrs

The Vigil Panel 156 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 5

Incident

Detective Jarrod Shivers was shot and killed while attempting to serve a narcotics search warrant at a home on Redstart Avenue at approximately 8:35 pm.

Detective Shivers was attempting to force entry into the home when the suspect inside fired one shot through the front door. The round struck Detective Shivers, fatally wounding him. The man then barricaded himself inside the home before being taken into custody and charged with murder.

The suspect was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in May 2009 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Detective Shivers was a U.S. Navy veteran. He had served with the Chesapeake Police Department for eight years and was assigned to the Special Investigations Section.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife, son, two daughters, parents, siblings, and grandparents.

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Added to badge.nw: August 2, 2026
Last updated: August 2, 2026

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Tributes

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.
Detective Shivers gave the Chesapeake Police Department 8 years.
Thank you for your service to the Chesapeake community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Chesapeake Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Chesapeake, VA

Platform Identity cpd.chesapeake.va.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 17, 2008

Tour of Duty 8 yrs

Age 34

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Cause Detail Gunfire

Weapon Handgun; .380 caliber

Military Service

Jarrod Brent Shivers served in the U.S. Navy (1992â2000) before joining law enforcement.

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Detective Jarrod Brent Shivers 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 97,759 officers honored here.

In VA, 394 of 655 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.2% of this state's fallen. That is 60.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Chesapeake Police Department, 4 of 6 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 66.7% of this agency's fallen.

Chesapeake Police Department

of 6 officers

66.7% Felonious

VA — Statewide

394

of 655 officers

60.2% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious