Patrolman Jessie James Everett, Hattiesburg Police Department, Mississippi

Patrolman Jessie James Everett

Hattiesburg Police Department, Mississippi

End of Watch Sunday, March 9, 1952

Jessie James Everett

Patrolman Jessie Everett and Patrolman M.W. Vinson were shot and killed as they investigated a burglary at the Ace Weathers Motor Company.

As police entered the front door they observed two men exit a side door and leave in a vehicle. Both officers were shot and killed in a gunfight with one of the suspects when they stopped the vehicle at the intersection of West 4th Street and North Street. The gunman was captured a short time later.

The subject who murdered the officers was sentenced to death and executed in the electric chair on February 5th, 1954. The other subject was sentenced to life in prison.

Patrolman Everett had a U.S. Air Force veteran and had served with the Hattiesburg Police Department for three months. He was survived by his wife and two children.

Bio

Age 28
Tour Not available
Badge Not available
Military Veteran

Incident Details

Cause Gunfire
Weapon Gun; Unknown type
Offender Executed in 1954

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Officer Everett your sacrifice will never be forgotten! Thank you for your dedicated service to City of Hattiesburg and the citizens you were sworn to protect! Continue to rest in peace my fellow LE brother!
"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." John 15:13

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of GOD." Matthew 5:9

Corporal Tony Dunn
Mississippi Highway Patrol, Troop D

March 9, 2016