Roll of Honor
Incident
Sergeant Kerry Winters drowned while conducting a training dive with the Ulster County Sheriff's Office's In-Water Rescue Team in Ashokan Reservoir at approximately 12:30 pm.
He became separated from his two dive partners during the dive. He was found unresponsive a short time later and brought to the surface where other deputies performed CPR and utilized an AED. He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Sergeant Winters had served with the Ulster County Sheriff's Office for 31 years and was assigned to the Corrections Division.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and two children.
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- July 23, 2026
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Tributes
31 years. You could have gone home.
Sergeant Winters gave the Ulster County Sheriff's Office 31 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Kingston community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Winters.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Sergeant Kerry Joseph Winters, Sr. is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In NY, 645 of 2,147 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 30% of this state's fallen. That is 1 percentage points below the national rate of 31%.
At Ulster County Sheriff's Office, 1 of 3 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 33.3% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Kerry Joseph Winters, Sr.'s cause is highlighted.
How Kerry Joseph Winters, Sr. Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Kerry Joseph Winters, Sr. is highlighted in Sep.
Incident Location
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