Roll of Honor
Parnell Laroy Guyton
Incident
Sergeant Parnell Guyton died after contracting COVID-19 in a presumed exposure while on duty.
Sergeant Guyton had served with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Police Department for 16 years.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Sergeant Parnell Laroy Guyton died on July 31, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 47.
He is one of 884 officers honored here.
Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.
Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and son.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Sergeant Guyton gave the University of Alabama at Birmingham Police Department 16 years.
Thank you for your service to the Birgmingham community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Guyton.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Sergeant Parnell Laroy Guyton is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In AL, 23 of 643 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 3.6% of this state's fallen. That is 5.5 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Parnell Laroy Guyton's cause is highlighted.
How Parnell Laroy Guyton Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Parnell Laroy Guyton is highlighted in Jul.