Walter Artz

In the summer of 1987, a domestic disturbance call on Hendricks Street in northern Vigo County, Indiana, ended in tragedy with the death of a dedicated law enforcement officer. Sergeant Walter Kevin Artz, a 31-year-old male and an 11-year veteran of the Vigo County Sheriff's Department, was fatally shot on the evening of July 1, 1987. He and his fellow officers were responding to a report of a dispute and were attempting to de-escalate the situation with an armed man at the rear of the residence ...