Roll of Honor
Incident
Detective Jerry Walker was shot and killed after responding to a call involving an armed subject on the 1400 block of Turtle Cove Drive.
Responding officers encountered the man standing behind a fence. As they ordered him to drop his weapon the man ran into a home and then started shooting out of the home's windows.
Detective Walker was struck in the neck by one of the rounds. He was flown to Medical City Denton where he succumbed to his wounds.
The subject remained barricaded inside the home for several hours. The man was found dead inside the home approximately six hours after the initial shooting.
Detective Walker was a U.S. Army veteran and had served with the Little Elm Police Department for 19 years.
Survivors
He is survived by his four children.
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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.
Detective Walker gave the Little Elm Police Department 19 years.
Thank you for your service to the Little Elm 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
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Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Jerry Ronald Walker served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.
Detective Jerry Ronald Walker 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 TX, 1,460 of 2,421 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.3% of this state's fallen. That is 60.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
National Cause Distribution
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Weapons Used Against Officers
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Incident Location
Military Service
Jerry Ronald Walker served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.
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