In the late winter of 1981, a sense of duty called Deputy Sheriff Larkin V. Pettit to a domestic dispute in DeSoto County, Mississippi, a call that would tragically be his last. On the evening of Sunday, March 8th, the 37-year-old lawman, a respected member of the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department for five years, responded to the disturbance, stepping into a volatile situation with the aim of restoring peace. The male deputy was met with gunfire, his life abruptly ended in an act of violence th
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