John Wesley Wright was a 25-year-old male reserve deputy sheriff serving with the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee when his life ended abruptly on August 16, 1988, in Rogersville. That summer day, he was not on a routine patrol or doing administrative work; he was in the middle of a high-risk effort to help bring an escaped convict back into custody. During that operation, as deputies moved in to apprehend the fugitive, a fellow deputy’s weapon discharged, and Wright was accident
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