Deputy Sheriff Christopher Richard Parsons, 31, was shot and killed while on duty on December 15, 2012, in Mineral Point, Missouri. Parsons had been with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office about two months when he responded around 2:10 a.m. to a 911 report of an unconscious woman on Nugget Road to support an ambulance crew. As the woman was being loaded into the ambulance, her son, Gary Sancegrow, emerged from a nearby mobile home and fired a single shotgun blast that struck Deputy Parsons, killing him instantly.

Sancegrow, wearing camouflage, fled into nearby woods and prompted a multi-agency manhunt that lasted about 15 hours before he turned himself in at a police checkpoint near the scene. He was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Court filings later disclosed a history of mental illness, including a schizophrenia diagnosis; subsequent psychiatric evaluations found him incompetent to stand trial, and the charges were dismissed when a judge determined competency was unlikely to be restored, with Sancegrow committed to the Department of Mental Health for treatment.

Does anyone have information about Parsons’ final shift, or memories of him from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office that could add to the record?