Douglas Frank Hutton

Pulaski County Sheriff's Department — Somerset, KY

Felonious

End of Watch December 1, 1961

Age 37

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 8

Incident

Deputy Hutton was shot and killed as he and four other deputies attempted to arrest an escaped convict. As the deputies surrounded the house the suspect fired a shot through the front door at the deputy who announced their presence. After the shot Deputy Hutton shined his flashlight at a window on the side of the house. Moments later the suspect fired a blast from his shotgun, striking Deputy Hutton in the chest with a deer slug. Deputy Hutton called out for assistance but it took the other deputies several minutes to get to his location because they were in the line of fire. The suspect fled the scene but turned himself in three days later. The suspect, who was serving a 10 year sentence for shooting into a house trailer in 1959, was convicted of manslaughter and received another 10 years.

Survivors

Deputy Hutton was survived by his wife and daughter.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Deputy Sheriff Hutton served with the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department.
Thank you for your service to the Somerset community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Sheriff Hutton.

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

Agency

Department Pulaski County Sheriff's Department

Location Somerset, KY

Platform Identity pcso.pulaski.ky.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 1, 1961

Age 37

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Shotgun

Offender Sentenced to 10 years

Deputy Sheriff Douglas Frank Hutton is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In KY, 755 of 983 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 76.8% of this state's fallen. That is 22.6 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, 8 of 9 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 88.9% of this agency's fallen.

Pulaski County Sheriff's Department

of 9 officers

88.9% Felonious

KY — Statewide

755

of 983 officers

76.8% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious