Deputy Sheriff Roger Dale Rice Jr., 29, was killed on the night of July 14, 2011, in Laurens County, South Carolina, while assisting the Fountain Inn Police Department in a search for a murder suspect. Officers had tracked the suspect, Bennie Ray Brown Jr., to a residence on Barrel Stave Road in Clinton. Brown opened fire during the attempted apprehension; Deputy Rice was fatally wounded and other officers returned fire, wounding Brown and taking him into custody.

Rice had served with the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office for 18 months and left behind a wife and two children. The suspect was charged in the killings of his girlfriend earlier that evening and of Deputy Rice; a jury later convicted him on two counts of murder and a weapons charge and imposed consecutive life sentences.

Did anyone in the community have contact with Deputy Rice or information about the events that night?