Bio & Incident Details
Age: 26
Tour: 3 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Stabbed
Incident Date: 6/9/1984
Weapon: Edged weapon; Shank
Suspect: Executed in 2004
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Deputy Phillip Pence was stabbed to death by an inmate while conducting searches of cells for weapons.
He was stabbed as he entered the cell by the suspect who had warned earlier that he would kill the next person to come into his cell. Deputy Pence was stabbed in the chest with a shank fashioned from a metal bucket handle.
The suspect was sentenced to death and executed on June 8, 2004.
Deputy Pence had served with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department for 3 years. He is survived by his mother.



