Bryant Vick was a 28-year-old male deputy sheriff with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office who was shot and killed on May 22, 1926, at a community dance hall in Sweeden, Arkansas. Accounts preserved in law-enforcement memorial records describe how he confronted a man who was carrying a concealed handgun; the encounter turned deadly when the man opened fire, fatally wounding the deputy. The location is consistently recorded as Sweeden, a small community in Jefferson County, and the date of de
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