Charles Edward Baskette, Jr.

Greene County Sheriff's Office — Greeneville, TN

Cardiac

End of Watch March 23, 1998

Age 37

Tour of Duty 1 yrs 1 mo

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 7

Incident

Deputy Sheriff Eddie Baskette suffered a fatal heart attack while training at the Greene County Firing Range at 1435 Hal Henard Road in Greeneville.

By 7:20 a.m., Deputy Baskette had completed approximately two hours of physical training exercises. After breakfast, he returned to the training course and was running when he collapsed around 10:30 a.m. Despite staff and other cadets providing life-saving measures, he was transported to Laughlin Memorial Hospital, where he was unable to be resuscitated.

Deputy Baskette had served with the Greene County Sheriff's Department for over a year. He worked in the Detention Center for 10 months and was assigned to patrol for three months.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and two children.

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Tributes

You barely got started.
Deputy Sheriff Baskette gave the Greene County Sheriff's Office 1 year.
Thank you for your service to the Greeneville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Sheriff Baskette.

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

Agency

Department Greene County Sheriff's Office

Location Greeneville, TN

Platform Identity gcso.greene.tn.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 23, 1998

Tour of Duty 1 yrs 1 mo

Age 37

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Cardiac

Deputy Sheriff Charles Edward Baskette, Jr. is one of 1,306 officers lost to cardiac events in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 4% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In TN, 37 of 769 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 4.8% of this state's fallen. That is 0.8 percentage points above the national rate of 4%.

At Greene County Sheriff's Office, 1 of 8 officers on record were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 12.5% of this agency's fallen.

Greene County Sheriff's Office

of 8 officers

12.5% Cardiac

TN — Statewide

of 769 officers

4.8% Cardiac

Nationwide

1,306

of 32,508 officers

4% Cardiac