Sherman Ray Walker. Sherman served during the years of the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Lieutenant Sherman Walker was shot and killed from ambush in front of his home on Little Emilie Street in Garyville. As he entered his unmarked patrol car at 8:45 p.m., he was shot multiple times in the back, fatally wounding him. Three suspects were charged with first-degree murder a couple of months later. They confessed that they killed him in retaliation for arresting one of them five times. Two of the suspects had lengthy criminal records, and one was a juvenile. All three men pleaded guilty. The suspect who fired the fatal shot received 99 years. One suspect received 21 years and was released in 1995. In 2002, he was convicted of killing two bank tellers during a bank robbery and was sentenced to death. The youth received 40 years. Lieutenant Walker was a United States Army Vietnam War veteran and had served with the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office for eight years.
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In tribute
I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Detective Lieutenant Walker gave the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office 8 years.
Thank you for your service to the LaPlace community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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