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 death matches the end-of-watch entries kept by memorial organizations.
Memorial listings that compile historical officer fatalities confirm Vick’s name, agency, and the circumstances of gunfire at the dance hall but do not provide biographical details beyond his age, nor do they offer contemporary newspaper clippings to expand on his background. Separate gun-violence memorial records likewise record his death in Sweeden on the same date, reinforcing the time and place of the incident.
As for the assailant, the public summaries available today do not name a suspect, nor do they report an arrest, indictment, or final disposition. The memorial pages focus on honoring the fallen deputy rather than documenting the investigative aftermath, and no accessible source reviewed here identifies whether the shooter was apprehended or prosecuted.
