Dennis Ray Herring

Camden County Sheriff's Office — Woodbine, GA

Felonious

End of Watch August 30, 1974

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 3

Incident

Deputy Sheriff Dennis Herring was shot and killed as he and another deputy responded to a disturbance at a home on State Highway 49 in Browntown at about 12:10 pm. Deputy Herring volunteered for the call despite having finished his shift because he was familiar with the house. When they arrived at the home they encountered a man experiencing delusions while firing a shotgun in the house and claiming that his parents were dead inside. As Deputy Herring stepped onto the front porch the man shot him with a shotgun. The subject was apprehended and convicted of Deputy Herring's murder.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Deputy Sheriff Herring served with the Camden County Sheriff's Office.
Thank you for your service to the Woodbine community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Sheriff Herring.

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

Agency

Department Camden County Sheriff's Office

Type Sheriff's Office

Location Woodbine, Camden County, GA

Platform Identity ccso.camden.ga.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 30, 1974

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Shotgun

Deputy Sheriff Dennis Ray Herring is one of 17,559 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 53.9% of all 32,586 officers honored here.

In GA, 548 of 903 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.7% of this state's fallen. That is 6.8 percentage points above the national rate of 53.9%.

At Camden County Sheriff's Office, 2 of 4 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 50% of this agency's fallen.

Camden County Sheriff's Office

of 4 officers

50% Felonious

GA — Statewide

548

of 903 officers

60.7% Felonious

Nationwide

17,559

of 32,586 officers

53.9% Felonious