Roll of Honor
William Anthony Anderson Sr.
Incident
Chief of Police Anthony Anderson suffered a fatal heart attack while working extra hours at the National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) Basketball Tournament game at the Bonner Arnold Coliseum in Booneville.
Chief Anderson had been working his regular hours and added the additional college tournament games to his schedule, as well as high school and junior high games. He was working his fifth game in four days when he collapsed at 2:30 p.m. Despite life-saving measures, he was unable to be revived.
Chief Anderson had served with the Northeast Mississippi Community College Campus Police for almost ten years and previously served as the Chief of Police of the Verona Police Department and with the Union County Sheriff's Office.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife, two daughters, a son, and three grandchildren.
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- August 2, 2026
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Tributes
24 years. You could have gone home.
Chief of Police Anderson gave the Northeast Mississippi Community College Police Department 24 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Booneville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Chief of Police Anderson.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Chief of Police William Anthony Anderson Sr. is one of 1 officers lost to cardiac events in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In MS, 9 of 350 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 2.6% of this state's fallen. That is 2.6 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
National Cause Distribution
How Cardiac compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. William Anthony Anderson Sr.'s cause is highlighted.
How William Anthony Anderson Sr. Compares
When Cardiac Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Cardiac deaths across the full memorial record. William Anthony Anderson Sr. is highlighted in Mar.
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